A YOUNG climate activist has detailed numerous issues at the UK-hosted COP26 event in Glasgow after photographs showed long queues to get into the venue over the first few days.

Alexandria Villasenor, the New York-based co-founder of the US Youth Climate Strike movement, is in Scotland’s biggest city for the major environmental summit.

The 16-year-old warned that COP26 is “really not okay” when it comes to organisation – explaining she’s faced problems with the SEC reaching capacity and struggles to observe the negotiations she travelled across the ocean to see.  

In a damning Twitter thread, Villasenor reflected on her experience trying to get into the UN summit.

“It’s true, there’s one entrance for 20k attendees, it’s like a single file line for everyone to get in and get through security,” she told her tens of thousands of followers.

“I’ve spent 4 hours in line over the past 2 days. It’s chaos and a failure on the part of the organizers.”

Once inside COP26 it’s not much better, argues Villasenor. “It gets even weirder, with civil society literally locked out of negotiation spaces, with no video link or any other way to effectively observe at all.”

She and other activists are only able to watch the main plenary from their laptop in another room, Villasenor added.

Villasenor confirmed that a number of people couldn’t get into COP26 at all yesterday as the venue reached capacity. Others called on the UK Government to reimburse the people who paid to come to Glasgow just to “sit in hotel rooms”.

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Attendees had been sent an email from the UNFCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) apologising for the inconvenience caused when trying to access the event, adding that there had been “unprecedented logistical circumstances”.

Villasenor also took aim at the lack of wheelchair access and language interpreters after an Israeli minister was not able to get into the centre.

“So let's flip this around and let me tell you who IS INCLUDED,” she stressed. “You wanna guess? Fossil fuels!”

The young campaigner pointed out that gas companies had been allowed to sponsor pavilions within the exhibition part of COP26.

“Finally, if this exclusionary dystopian hellscape of a conference wasn't enough for you, well, enter the billionaires,” she said – expressing anger that Amazon’s Jeff Bezos was on the main stage yesterday.

“This billionaire had to go to space to figure out what billions of people, in the most affected areas of the planet, have been yelling at the top of their lungs about for a long time now. Dude needs a listening session not a rocket trip,” she added.

In response to those suggests the logistics had little to do with the negotiations themselves, Villasenor concluded: “The negotiating space that we create, as a planet, is one of the most important aspects of these talks and can ultimately set it up for failure or success.”

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It comes after a swish VIP dinner at Kelvingrove meant road closures forced local residents to walk through the unlit park to access their homes.

Meanwhile today at COP26 campaigners are talking about finance, and Chancellor Rishi Sunak spoke on the main stage arguing that the private sector needs to assist in the move to net-zero.

“The old notions of why the private sector should decarbonise because the planet must be put before profit are no longer universally true,” the Conservative said.

“Green technologies have cost curves that continue to plunge, in many cases it is simply cost effective to go green.

“Addressing climate change is the greatest economic opportunity of our time.”