DELEGATES who have travelled to Glasgow for this week’s Cop26 climate summit delivered demands from global indigenous communities to world leaders today. 

In a letter to be handed to the authorities in the city, Minga Indigena representatives from Alaska to Patagonia set out nine core demands for those attending Cop26.

Minga Indigena, a grouping of collectives, organisations and communities from diverse Indigenous Nations throughout the American continent — the Abya Ayala — have said the conference should listen to their advice on humanity and living alongside nature, not exploiting it.