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Barack Obama is to reignite COP26 with a flying visit to Scotland on Monday.
The former US President will jet in to Glasgow to deliver a speech at the climate summit and catch the ears of the youth of the world.
Many of the world’s leaders have departed Scotland after three days of rubbing shoulders with royalty and thrashing out ideas to help save the planet.
Former US President Barack Obama at an event in Newark, New Jersey, on October 23. He is due to fly in to Glasgow on Monday to reignite COP26 talks.
World leaders pose for a group photo during an evening reception to mark the opening day of the COP26 summit in Glasgow
But one activist Sarah Clatworthy, 52, who was demonstrating outside the ring of steel thrown around the summit, said: ‘Biden and Johnson hardly spread any charisma around Glasgow while they were here.
‘Barack will bring some power to this very flat conference and appeal to the younger people watching around the world. He has the pulling power that the others simply do not.’
Maxine Green, 47, from Dumbarton added: ‘Barack has such an incredible amount of respect from younger people. It’s brilliant that he has agreed to travel here.
‘This conference will prove largely impotent unless young people tune into the important messages of
