First look inside COP26 Action Hub ahead of crucial climate summit

This is the first look inside the Action Hub inside the main venue at the COP26 climate change conference venue in Glasgow.

Located inside the Hydro, the space is an area where non-party stakeholders can stage a variety of events, such as talk shows, special launch events, competition winners announcements, games, interactive activities, and digital demonstrations.

World leaders, scientists, campaigners, diplomats, journalists are all converging in Scotland this weekend – with one task in hand: saving the world.

The crucial summit comes at a time when countries are under pressure to increase their ambition to tackle the greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change.

The two-week conference is being seen as key to increasing action on cutting emissions to deliver on the pledges in the global Paris Agreement to limit temperature rises to “well below” 2C, and try for the safer 1.5C goal.

Tens of thousands of people are already in Glasgow – collecting accreditation and getting Covid tests.

They need all of that to get into the United Nations blue zone inside the Scottish Events Campus, which is now UN territory.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Friday that staging the event is a “huge honour for Scotland”.

[portman]

Look at all those lights. Bad for the environment!

[ichiru]

They arrive on private jets, an army of cars. Just to preach to the little people to fix problems they didn't create

[craggyboy]

The circus of the self important is here

[Mike-gdzd]

This look like a Dobbies Garden Center cafe. Tacky…. No wonder China and Russia bailed. The only winners will be the Glasgow rats 🐀 scoring some leftover caviar.

[vtechead]

They could all have just talked over the internet and saved millions of pounds, that could have been put to better use— like employing more binmen.