Cop26 Diary: Work together and these pledges won't be 'more blah blah blah'

Cop26 Diary: Work together and these pledges won't be 'more blah blah blah'

UCC's Clara Felberbauer: It's been a very busy week, and what has been achieved is significant: Picture: Dan Linehan COP26, COP 26

A group of local children, primary-school age, accompanied by their parents, holding up hand-drawn signs. A young girl draws a sign for me, pencil on a notebook, an eye. 

The eyes of the world indeed, are on Glasgow during these two weeks. "We should not be here", a sign reads, "Unf*k our future!", another. It expresses what many young people that have come out feel: fear for their future, and in many places, the present, and the knowledge that something needs to happen now. 

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