While the World Leaders Summit took place in the Blue Zone this week, we asked visitors to our Green Zone what their message was for global leaders across the river. “Act now so that we still have a future to live in.”

Houses are being washed away, schools full of children inside, bridges, our food our crops, everything is being washed away”, they said at a stage in George Square. “ Indigenous people are dying in the river they’re being washed away by massive floods. Latin-American Indigenous leaders were also among today’s demonstrations. They were the ones leading the march and several of them sent a loud message to world leaders: stop extracting resources and to ‘leave carbon in the ground’. I live in southwest Wales and climate change is clearly happening, but we don´t even grasp what is happening in so many other parts of the world and I am scared,” she told UN News. “I really care about the world that we are passing on to future generations, and what we are doing to the Global South. Welsh citizen Jane Mansfield carried around a sign that read: “ Code red for humanity”, the signature phrase UN Secretary General António Guterres used after the latest IPCC report published earlier this year warned of a looming climate catastrophe. Young climate activists take part in demonstrations at the COP26 Climate Conference in Glasgow, Scotland.

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