Pádraig Hoare: Protestors can't get through the turnstiles but fossil fuel giants make their presence felt at Cop26 

Advertising hoardings and stalls from fossil fuel giants were unmissable as attendees meandered their way through the sprawling campus

A picture and quotation taken from Britain's Queen Elizabeth's address to Cop26 delegates as she appears as a domination on the Piccadilly Lights at Piccadilly Circus in London, on Wednesday. Picture: AP Kirsty Wigglesworth

Insulated initially from the protests and visceral anger pervading the chilly Glasgow air this week, Cop26 delegates got their first sense on Wednesday morning that all is not well among environmental warriors on the ground. 

Thousands of delegates – some 25,000 will attend the Glasgow event overall – queued impatiently on Monday and Tuesday for hours on end, herded together with social distancing nowhere in sight and a single line entrance to alleviate the bottleneck.