Barack Obama will fly to Scotland on Monday to help revive COP26.
The former US President will fly to Glasgow to give a speech at the climate summit. He will also be a magnet for the attention of the young people around the world.
Many of the world’s leaders have departed Scotland after three days of rubbing shoulders with royalty and thrashing out ideas to help save the planet.
Barack Obama, former President of the United States, at an event in Newark (New Jersey), on October 23. He will fly to Glasgow on Monday, to revive COP26 negotiations.
At an evening reception marking the opening of the COP26 summit, world leaders pose for a group picture
But one activist Sarah Clatworthy, 52, who was demonstrating outside the ring of steel thrown around the summit, said: ‘Biden and Johnson hardly spread any charisma around Glasgow while they were here.
‘Barack will bring some power to this very flat conference and appeal to the younger people watching around the world. He has the pulling power that the others simply do not.’
Maxine Green, 47, from Dumbarton added: ‘Barack has such an incredible amount of respect from younger people. It’s brilliant that he has agreed to travel here.
‘This conference will prove largely impotent unless young people tune into the important messages of COP26. It is for the younger people who will outlive us that we are all here.’
Obama is believed to have timed his visit to avoid clashing with President Biden’s and risking being the star of the show. Biden left Tuesday.
The event will be hosted by the Obama Foundation and Obama will meet with a small group youths from around the world to discuss ways to combat climate change.
In a message released today to mark his trip, Obama said: ‘From the perspective of the Obama Foundation, one of the things I’m most excited about is to see the young activists from around the world who are taking up the baton and not just working in their own countries, but now forming a collective movement across borders to tell the older generation that has gotten us into this mess that we all have an obligation to dig our way out of it.
“And if old folks won’t do it, get out of the way, because these young folks are coming.
Greta Thunberg (star climate activist) stated that COP26 ‘isn’t a climate conference’ and was a two-week celebration on business as usual’.
In a tweet on Twitter, the 18-year-old climate activist claimed that it was actually a celebration of business as usual for two weeks.
Greta Thunberg criticized the climate change summit in Glasgow as the’most excludeive COP’.
‘And they’re ready to make sure that we have a sustainable planet and a better future for our kids and our grandkids.’
But star teenage activist Greta Thunberg said tonight that COP26 ‘was the most excluding COP ever.’
She said on Twitter: ‘This is no longer a climate conference.
‘This is a Global North greenwash festival.
‘A two-week celebration of business as usual and blah blah blah.’