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COP26 youth demonstrations: Activists protest against lack of action by world leaders

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Thousands of young campaigners marched through the streets of Glasgow on Friday to demand that world leaders at the UN climate conference safeguard their future against climate change. Inside the COP26 conference venue in Glasgow, Scotland, civil society leaders were taking over discussions at the end of a week of government speeches and pledges, which included promises to phase out coal, slash emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane and reduce deforestation. FRANCE 24's Chief Foreign Editor Robert Parsons gives his perspective.

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