Chaotic scenes outside Cop26, as world descends on Glasgow
by Fiona Harvey, Nina Lakhani, Patrick Greenfield, To from Environment | The Guardian on (#5RCSY)
Complaints about wait to get in hint at poor organisation at multinational summit
Queues, icy weather, and more queues; as the meetings finally got under way at Glasgow's climate conference, organisation and admissions continued to be a problem.
About 2,000 delegates and journalists were kept in large crowds queuing outside the conference centre, with Guardian reporters noting there seemed to have been a lack of planning, as no attempt was made to encourage people to queue rather than simply press forward.
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