So then.....
COP26 is all done and dusted, and the circus has moved on out of town.
There was a LOT of coverage (at least there was in my little social media bubble!) and it was amazing to see climate issues as headline news nearly every day through out the fortnight.
And there were a helluva a lot of opinion pieces written, tweeted and spoken - many of them contradictory, and at times (all the time?) it felt hard to really get a sense of what happened and where that leaves us.

Luckily for us, the amazing Laura Young (aka Less Waste Laura) who came and gave us a Beginner's Guide to COP26 just a few short weeks ago, and who was actually there in the flesh and in the Blue Zone (where all the negotiations were happening) to give us her take on the good bits, the bad bits, and everything in between.

I think for me, the take home is that progress was made, not enough, and not fast enough, but progress nonetheless. And that actually, in so much of this stuff, governments will always be the slowest and last to react (super frustrating when they should the quickest and first..), and the fact that they are now reacting and taking is positive. But importantly, as Greta says, we don't need to wait for them. We are the ones with (a lot of) the power. We can act without them. We can create change in our own homes, communities, and workplaces. And that is huge.

Enjoy!

• COP26 website
• Less Waste Laura
  - Website
  - Instagram
  - Twitter
• Tearfund
• [118] - A Beginner's Guide to COP26 (podcast)
• [101] - The Power of You (podcast)
• The Power of You (blog post)
• Katharine Hayhoe's TED talk
• The Sustainable(ish) FB group

• Make a 'ta-da!' list of all the climate actions and changes you've already made - share it on social media
• Brainstorm your 'spheres of influence'
• Write to your MP, local council, school headmaster, boss - let them know that this is an issue that is important to you and ask what their climate plans are