THE legacy of COP26 is living on in Glasgow as the city marked 100 days since the close of the international climate summit.

To mark the milestone since the signing of the Glasgow Climate Pact, events were yesterday held at the city chambers to keep sustainability ambitions in the spotlight.

In the morning, speakers from business start ups took part in discussions about transitioning to a carbon economy.

And in the afternoon, Glasgow's young people took their chance to shine at an event hosted by pupils from Clevedon Secondary School.

Pupils Lily Logan, Caiden Wright, Crystal Lin and Ivan Kaliganwa all took turns to speak to the audience during the session.

Susan Aitken, Leader of Glasgow City Council, said: ”COP26 was a key moment for the whole world to come together and address the climate emergency.

“COP26 was an incredible moment for Glasgow in a variety of ways, including showcasing the city, our experience in global events and developing international relationships that will help us further our sustainability agenda.

"It was also about engaging our young people to learn about and make decisions on things that affect them now and in the future.

Glasgow Times: Lily Logan, Crystal Lin, Caiden Wright and Ivan Kaliganwa with Danny Bent from Running out of Time and council leader Susan Aitken Picture: Colin Mearns

“Our work now is to make sure that we continue to build on what was achieved during COP26.

"These sessions are not only a reflection on last November, but the next step in our pathway to a sustainable city.”

More than 60 primary seven to S3 pupils from 28 schools across the city took part in the session, hearing from their peers about green projects going on in schools.

These included schemes forming part of Our Dear Green Place climate change related work with the aim of inspiring young people to continue this work when returning to their own school.

The audience heard from the Dandelion urban growing project about how any space schools have can be used to sow, grow and share food and ideas.

The Glasgow Schools’ Forum spoke about its work in launching a young persons’ climate charter during COP26 and what the council has done in direct response to listening to pupils’ suggestions and concerns, via the Forum.

St Andrews Secondary School pupils spoke about their hosting of global visitors from India, Canada and the USA during COP26, taking part in a climate justice event hosted by Kelvin College and their work on becoming a UNICEF Rights’ Respecting school.

Wiktoria Krosny and Kady Docherty, both 16 and in S5, spoke to the audience about what their school had achieved during COP26 and their ambitions for the future.

Kady said: "For me, it's about the little things - we need to take in to consideration integrating climate change into the curriculum and ensuring that young people are growing up with an understanding of the issues involved and that we all need to make changes."

Wiktoria added: "The younger generation have to live with climate change but we are not responsible for it and world leaders are not doing enough.

"In some aspects, COP26 was just a way to show off that we are involved but it's not enough - we are not really seeing enough being done."

During COP26 the council engaged with every school in the city on discussions around climate change, sustainability and leadership in the months leading up to and during the event.

This meant more than 70,000 children and young people in Glasgow were part of public conversations on climate change.

At the City Chambers event yesterday pupils heard from Danny Bent, of the charity One Run, who is part of the group organising a baton relay from Glasgow to Egypt for COP27.

It will take place over 729 stages and 7000km, with 250,000 people running sections of the route carrying a baton containing messages for world leaders.

Glasgow Times: Danny Bent, of Running Out Of Time, and Susan Aitken, Leader of Glasgow City Council Picture: Colin Mearns

Lord Provost Philip Braat said: “I saw today that our young people care deeply about climate change, the future of the planet and its people.

"Their immense energy and commitment shone through in their presentations.

"I saw first-hand during COP26 how heavily engaged our young people were, not only in having their voices heard, but also through direct action, demonstrating their green credentials.

"The challenge now is keeping momentum, but I feel certain, from what I heard today, that the learning for sustainability work is now firmly embedded in all of our schools.

"Our well informed and engaged young people are eminently equipped to make the right decisions for the future health of our planet and its global citizens."