AS SOME world leaders descend on Glasgow over the next few days (and others stay away), our city will host a summit that has no treaty to agree but which will nevertheless be closely scrutinised to see whether the world, particularly those who run its dominant economies, are showing any signs of facing up to the crisis that is engulfing the planet. 

It is a crisis that will be felt most quickly and most acutely in the global South and by the world’s poor. 

These are the people who do not account for most of the world’s greenhouse emissions but will be on the sharp end of its effects, whether directly through extreme weather events or indirectly if lives are affected through the economic impacts of an unjust transition.