Extinction Rebellion activists camped through the night outside the Glasgow headquarters of US banking giant JP Morgan in a '24 hour vigil'.
Holding signs aloft reading 'Green wash won't work' and 'No1 fossil fuel funding bank' the group spent time on Waterloo Street on Tuesday into Wednesday as world leaders continued talks at the Cop26 summit in the city.
It is one of many environmental protests to have taken place during the course of the two-week summit.
The building has been closed with security fencing, and has had a 24 hour police and security presence since the conference began.
For the vigil, the Highland Hecklers were joined by activists from XR UK, XR Scotland, XR Paris, Doctors of XR, and XR Spain. XR Buddhists joined them for a sit-in meditation, and musicians including guitarists, violinists, and an XR samba band came to give them support.
John Lardner, from the Highland Hecklers, said “I’m here because they’ve spent 318 billion dollars since the Paris conference in 2016 on investing in fossil fuels, which is an outrage!
"Far, far more, than any other bank in the world. They try to disguise this by changing the concept of carbon emissions from absolute emissions to carbon intensity, which is definitely greenwash, because it just gives them permission to carry on increasing carbon emissions”.
Holding a banner at the vigil saying ‘Combustibles Fósiles = Muerte’, Karen Colleen from XR Spain said “We need to apply as much pressure as we possibly can to keep the carbon in the ground and unless we pressurise the Government that won’t happen it time; it’s probably too late anyway.
"We've come to bear witness that JP Morgan is the largest subsidiser of fossil fuels worldwide and people need to know that.”
Carlos, who walked to Glasgow from Spain for COP26, leaving in September and arriving a few days ago, said “Without a change in where the money is going, we’re not going to achieve much.
"Allocating the resources for a fair and just transition to a low carbon economy that allows a dignified life for everyone and not only for humans, is what we really need, instead of more and more greenwashing which is really intensifying. We see it around Glasgow everywhere you look.”
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