COP26

"Johnson's failure to act has left us with petrol queues, energy companies going bust, offshore workers unemployed for months on end, and a deepening climate crisis."

"What do we do when we destroy the planet?" asked one demonstrator. "We have nothing else."

A Sunrise Movement leader said the Arizona Democrat's reported proposal for the Build Back Better package is "not surprising since she's been meeting nonstop with corporate executives."

"Rich countries must accept their responsibility to pay for the loss and damage already caused."

Fijian Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama stressed that world leaders should not be allowed to "sneak in and out of Glasgow without making a single serious commitment."

"When President Biden meets with world leaders in Glasgow next month at COP 26, they won't ask him whether he built roads and bridges with Republican votes, they'll ask what he did to deliver on his climate commitments."

"It's really quite unprecedented, isn't it, for so many faith leaders to come together in this way."

While Uganda's Nakate said humanity "cannot adapt to extinction," Thunberg from Sweden said lack of action is "a betrayal of all present and future generations."