Baxter, Jonathan

Baxter, Jonathan

Jonathan Baxter

1 February 2022Feature

Jonathan Baxter shares his reflections from a long walk to COP26

For Peace News, I should say something constructive, something that encourages ongoing political engagement. But there was something about the Pilgrimage for COP26 that encouraged a different sort of engagement; less constructive in a clear-cut way.

After all, the pilgrimage arrived in Glasgow just before COP26 began and, while some of us stayed on to engage with COP26, most of us went home.

First the facts. We walked from Dunbar to Glasgow as a lead-in to the…