Climate change protesters rallied across Scotland with demands for a greener way out of the coronavirus pandemic.
Young people gathered in towns, cities and at Holyrood to show the high-profile movement championed by Swedish activist Greta Thunberg has not gone away.
More than 40,000 people took part in nationwide protests last year, before the world was changed by Covid-19.
Outside the Scottish Parliament, protestor Sandy Boyd: "I'm here protesting today because the climate crisis is still around."
Sandy said: "We had a massive protest last year, and we achieved a lot but it’s not gone away.
“We have an unparalleled opportunity right now as we recover from the Covid-19 pandemic, as we look at reinvesting in our economy to rebuild in a greener, fairer way – which is why our two demands are to invest in green jobs and to stop funding fossil fuel companies.”
He claimed the Scottish Government’s target for zero net carbon emissions by 2045 is “nowhere near good enough”.
Rallies were also held by pupils in Glasgow, Inverness, Aberdeen and Fort William.
Scottish Green Party co-leader Lorna Slater said: “The young people striking today recognise that the climate breakdown we are witnessing presents an existential threat to our survival. Wildfires, droughts, melting ice caps and landslips are a part of our daily news cycle yet we have politicians still looking for answers in technology that hasn’t been developed yet, such as electric planes or carbon capture and storage."
