Young activists have converged on Glasgow to make their voices heard at COP26
in need of humanitarian assistance, he added:"Two years on, we are still recovering. There are people who still don't have homes, who still haven't buried loved ones."
But it is not just natural disasters that activists from the global south are bearing witness to. Daniela Balaguera Villafaña, a 27-year-old indigenous activist from the Arhuaco people of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Columbia, has come to COP26 to explain how drug and plant trafficking and a lack of food sovereignty, are all tied up in issues of climate change.
Some young activists, who are also protectors of indigenous lands, have left their crucial posts at home to visit the summit in Scotland. They are frustrated by a lack of access to the spaces in which world leaders are making decisions on their behalf, but they are nonetheless organizing, finding solutions, and looking for crucial investments.
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