Cyclists in town in lead up to COP26

A team of climate cyclists stopped in Loughborough on a 500-mile route to the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow.

The fifteen cyclists were shining a light on the COP26 Climate Summit by pedalling 500 miles from Brighton to Glasgow.

They invited residents to ‘Unleash their inner Attenborough’ during a climate quiz at Jam Garden in Bedford Square.

Charity campaigns officer Sophie Gordon, 26, from Derby and now lives in Guildford, met her Dad in Loughborough.

She said: “I feel it’s important to come together in Glasgow during the COP26 summit to show the weight of public support for strong international action to tackle the climate and nature crisis.

“By cycling 500 miles across the country to get there, we aim to use the journey to highlight that we have the solutions we need. Communities across the UK are already putting them into practice, but we need to urgently scale it up.” The eco-cyclists, a mix of Extinction Rebellion campaigners and a group called Eco Action Families, began their journey from Brighton on Sunday, October 24.

The COP26 Cycle Ride runs over nine days, with the riders cycling 60 miles a day.

They made their first stop at Staines-onThames, where they held their first free climate quiz.

Following their stop in Loughborough, the team began the next leg of their journey, stopping at Rotherham.

They then pedalled to Harrogate and on to Hawes, Carlisle and Moffat, and will arrive in Glasgow where they will take part in a mass ‘bike swarm’ around the city.