American activists from the group Build Back Fossil Free gathered outside the Cop26 entrance in Glasgow as Joe Biden arrived on Monday, to demand he take executive action to block fossil fuel projects and declare a climate emergency. The group included Black and Indigenous leaders whose communities are on the frontline of fossil fuel extraction, facing the consequences of air pollution and contaminated drinking water and land across the US.

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