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Lego issues handbook by children on how to tackle climate crisis that will be handed to leaders at COP26

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Lego is touting it as its most ambitious build to date, but rather than many pages of instructions, the toymaker’s latest handbook offers only 10 steps. The booklet is not for a physical model, however. Instead it offers “building instructions for a better world” ahead of the crucial Cop26 climate talks that start in Glasgow this Sunday.

The “10 requests” of policymakers are based on research and workshops conducted with more than 6,000 children aged eight to 18 from around the world.

Nearly half of the children told researchers they thought about the environment once a week, while one in 10 thought about it every day. Global heating was their No 1 concern.

Tim Brooks, the vice-president of environmental responsibility at Lego, said the initiative sought to “give children a voice” at the climate talks. “Children are demanding that they and future generations are front of mind when it comes to creating policy,” he said
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