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Country heads, environmental campaigners and protestors are gathering for the COP26 conference in Glasgow, Scotland.

This conference is an invitation to countries to assemble and work on the planet's most urgent issue of climate change.

As conference members arrived, German artist Arnd Drossel turned up inside a 160 kilogram steel sphere that he had welded together.

His 1,500 kilometres journey is to show that we're all connected and must work together to tackle global warming.

Ahead of the event the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) announced that the last 7 years have been the warmest on record and that we can expect more devastating weather events if we do not reduce global warming.

Drossel's long journey took him three months as he stopped along the way to discuss sustainability with everyone from children to Lord Mayors.

For Drossel his "promise walk" and the connections he has made hold meaning.

He also values the support he has received.

All of this plus the need to stop and repair his sphere regularly have been a metaphor for how we must tackle climate change.

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