Climate activists demonstrating outside the COP26 Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, on Nov 12, 2021. NGOs were not happy with negotiations, calling the end results indecisive. — AFP
We heaped our hopes on one two-week conference, that it would save humanity from itself and stop the planet from burning up. So, was the Glasgow climate conference a success or failure?
Well, it depends on who you speak to.
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A member of an indigenous community at a protest rally in Glasgow on Nov 6. Indigenous communities around the world tend to be disproportionately affected by the climate crisis as they live off the land and face not only extreme weather events but also loss of ancestral lands as governments push development. — AFP
Teen Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg speaking to a crowd in Glasgow on Nov 5, 2021. She labelled what was billed as the most important conference on climate change this decade a 'failure', describing the decisions made with the words 'Blah-blah-blah', which have since gone viral. — AFP
'Capitalism Eats Our Planet' sign at a Climate Justice March in New York City on Nov 13. From Paris to Sydney, Nairobi to Seoul, more than 200 events took place during the Oct 31-Nov 12 COP26 period demanding immediate action for communities already affected by climate change, particularly in the poorer countries in the South. — AFP
Climate activists long fought to defund fossil fuels and end subsidies for one of the dirtiest global warming gases, carbon. On Nov 13 at Glasgow one agreement that was reached was to end such subsidies. However, instead of phasing out coal completely, the conference backed down to phasing it 'down' instead. The weak decisions emerging from COP26 were one reason for the more than 200 protest events that took place worldwide during the Oct 31-Nov 12 conference. This was a rally in New York City on Nov 13. — AFP
Campaigners from Britain-based organisation Oxfam dressed as US President Joe Biden (left) and Britain's PM Boris Johnson in the role of 'ineffective fire-fighting world leaders' posing for the press at a protest rally in Glasgow on Nov 12. — AP
The Red Rebels, members of the international climate-related civil disobedience movement Extinction Rebellion, conducting a 'funeral' ceremony on Nov 13 at Glasgow Cathedral's Necropolis to symbolise the failure of the COP26 process to urgently address the climate crisis with concrete solutions. — AFP
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