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The conference is underway in Glasgow with Joe Biden, Boris Johnson, Angela Merkel, Emmanuel Macron and other leaders all in attendance.
Air Force One landed in Edinburgh ahead of the summit with Boris Johnson welcoming other global leaders.
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Hide AdNicola Sturgeon was also meeting with the likes of David Attenborough and Greta Thunberg, with protests also taking place throughout the country.
We bring you the latest updates and news stories from around the conference as we get them.
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The Erskine bridge has re-opened, after being closed by police to maintain public safety as Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior boat passed through.
However, Traffic Scotland has warned the public that delays caused by the closure may take some time to ease.
Greta Thunberg said change will not come from the Cop26 conference as she criticised the “blah blah blah” of world leaders at the global gathering.
The Swedish climate activist addressed young protesters in Festival Park in Govan, across the River Clyde from the Cop26 venue.
“Change is not going to come from inside there - that is not leadership, this is leadership,” she said.
“We say no more blah blah blah, no more exploitation of people and nature and the planet. No more exploitation. No more blah blah blah. No more whatever the f*** they are doing inside there.”
A photo taken by Glasgow resident Becky Marshall shows police lined up on Argyle Street in Finnieston, as a COP26 reception attended by world leaders is happening at the nearby Kelvingrove Museum.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has apologised for suggesting in a BBC interview that failure to act at Cop26 in Glasgow would be possibly more grave than leaders who ignored warnings about the Nazis in the 1930s.
He tweeted: “I unequivocally apologise for the words I used when trying to emphasise the gravity of the situation facing us at Cop26. It’s never right to make comparisons with the atrocities brought by the Nazis and I’m sorry for the offence caused to Jews by these words.”