Women's voices must be listened to during the climate change movement as the most likely affected

The kinds of issues being debated at COP26 can sometimes feel detached from everyday life.

Most people instinctively understand the urgent need to tackle climate change.

But the technical language regularly used at the summit can be off-putting.

Activists love to talk about “offsetting” and “Net Zero” but they’re hardly terms used around the average house.

So it was refreshing to hear world leaders and other VIPs set out in plain language yesterday the threat climate change posed to families.

Put simply, women and children are more likely to be negatively impacted by severe weather events – particularly those living in the developing world.

Women are less likely to have savings, are more likely to be employed in small-scale farming and more often are primary child carers in families.

That means moving home or finding new employment can be out of reach for many.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon joins delegates and the US's Nancy Pelosi during the launch of Gender Day during COP26 in Glasgow today (Daily Record)

Nicola Sturgeon pointed out that it’s men who are more often in the positions of power to make decisions on climate change.

As the First Minister rightly said, the voices of women need to be amplified if this issue is to be resolved.

Sturgeon was just one of several high-profile female politicians to take to the stage at COP26.

House speaker Nancy Pelosi – the third most powerful official in the US behind the president and vice-president – summed it up when she spoke in Glasgow.

When women succeed, the world succeeds.

COP26 negotiators would do well to remember those words as the summit nears its conclusion.

999 crisis goes on

It is inhumane for any person in 2021 to end their life on stairs in a tenement close waiting for an ambulance crew to save them.

Every sympathy must go to Richard Brown’s family and to the neighbour who so desperately tried for five hours to get him help.

Thoughts must also go out to the ambulance crew who eventually arrived at Mr Brown's address (Daily Record)

We can only imagine the heartache and anxiety they will be suffering, and the Scottish Ambulance Service and the Scottish Government are right to apologise for the delay.

But we must also think of the ambulance crew who were sent out too late to save him.

The ordeal of finding someone already dead because of the waiting time for an ambulance cannot be underestimated.

There is no doubt this type of incident is having a huge effect on the morale of dedicated health care professionals who joined the SAS to save lives.

Health Secretary Humza Yousaf has called in the Army to help the SAS and has thrown millions at A&E to alleviate the queuing at hospital front doors but Richard Brown’s case shows much more needs to be done urgently to prevent more unnecessary deaths.

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