Another COP is over. Despite the rhetoric to keep global warming to 1.5˚C, national pledges to address the climate crisis put us instead on track for an alarming global warming of about 2.4°C. Each year of delay in reducing global emissions means the task gets more challenging, and more costly for all of us. As the doors closed on COP26 after midnight on 12th November, and delegates returned to their respective nation states, there was little doubt in the minds of many, in particular young people and those living in the global south, that ‘business as usual’ had emerged unscathed