It is remarkable to be in a place where quite so many people are all in such passionate agreement with each other on the same central point.Īs of last night, Boris Johnson was saying the same: ‘If Glasgow fails, then the whole thing fails’. The view is unanimous: we’re doomed, unless. You have to wonder why they are bothering since absolutely no one here disagrees with the core message anyway. Members of Extinction Rebellion marching through Edinburgh ahead of the first day of Cop26 in Glasgow Somewhere out to sea, the Greenpeace ship, Rainbow Warrior, is apparently heading for Glasgow and threatening to run the gauntlet of police launches patrolling the Clyde and sail right up to the summit site. One click of her fingers, as ever, will bring legions on to the streets. The bonsai teenage prodigy of climate activism arrived here (by train, of course) at the weekend, to be mobbed by adoring fans. Meanwhile, camped out somewhere in her Glasgow ‘safe house’ is Sweden’s Greta Thunberg. They have been allocated a parallel summit site on the other side of the river.Ĭalled the Green Zone, it opens this morning with thousands of activists from hundreds of organisations all preaching furiously to the converted.Ī quick look at the line-up shows that the actor Sir Mark Rylance, something called Poets for the Planet, the Global Citizens’ Assembly and a team of astronauts are just some of the star turns today – and this summit runs for two weeks. Women from organisation Women Wont Wheesht dressed as witches in Glasgow, as the Cop26 summit kicks off in the city
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