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Little Amal, a 3.5m puppet of a ten-year-old Syrian refugee, visited COP26 following her completion of The Walk – a four-month-long traveling festival of art and hope over 8,000km from the Syrian border to Manchester.
The giant puppet’s visit comes at the Gender + Science and Innovation Day at the conference. The day focuses on not only the ways in which women, girls, and marginalized people are disproportionately impacted by climate change but also the importance of their leadership and participation in driving solutions.
Little Amal attended ‘Advancing Gender Equality in Climate Action’ in the blue zone, which hosted US politicians Nancy Pelosi and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as well as First Minister Nicola Sturgeon as she stood alongside young Samoan climate activist Brianna Freuan to represent young women and girls from the global south.
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Nancy Pelosi, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and this giant puppet. Sounds like a collective IQ of 13.