There were times during the Cop26 climate summit when the jargon of the negotiations fell away, and the underlying human connections came to the fore. One such moment occurred in a bar near Glasgow city centre, when a local man came over to offer a can of Irn-Bru to Chief Ninawa Huni Kui, spokesperson for one of the largest groups of indigenous people in Brazil.
The chief, who is a delegate at Cop26 and had been filming an interview with the New Statesman via a translator, graciously accepted the offering, giving it the thumbs-up.
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