THE INDEPENDENT CHANNEL

Real Stories. Real People. Real Time.

COP26.tv is the only 12 hour daily live-streamed news and information channel that offers coverage from both inside and outside the climate conference in Glasgow. It platforms real people and real stories, amplifying the voices which are too often excluded from mainstream media narratives. Our lead presenters are Guardian environmental columnist George Monbiot (presenting the show ‘Monbiosis’ every day at 7:30pm), journalists Anuradha Vittachi and Nicolás Eliades (from The Ecologist) and climate activists including Melissa Jiménez Gómez-Tagle.

The COP26.tv team consists entirely of volunteers from around the world, with live-streamers from 20 countries across the global South. To help amplify the voices of marginalised environmental groups, from remote African villages to the Australian outback, COP26.tv has run weekly multi-language workshops on how to live-stream and make video content on smartphones. Live-streaming allows us to broadcast information directly from both the ground in Glasgow and around the world.

Among the plethora of information and bureaucracy surrounding COP26, it is often very difficult for ordinary people to make sense of what is happening in Glasgow, and what it all really means for them. COP26.tv cuts through this: we provide clear and digestible information, from across the world, whilst never shying away from the complicated questions. Our programme schedule is exceptionally varied: there will be deep dives into the politics and the science; music performances; interviews with celebrities and public figures; plus live coverage of all protest actions on the streets of Glasgow and around the globe. COP26.tv offers something for everyone.

‘If you want to know what is really going on at Cop26 without the blah, blah, blah, follow Cop26.tv.’ - Julie Christie

Cop26.tv are grateful for the support received from Extinction Rebellion Global Support, Extinction Rebellion COP crowdfunder and The Greens (European Parliament)