A green-fingered Lanarkshire group are set to play a part in an international event.
Grow 73 in Rutherglen will be participating in the Running Out of Time climate rally on September 30, which will see the baton passed from Glasgow, which hosted last year's COP26 environmental event, to Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt, the site for COP27 in November this year.
An extraordinary 7200km non-stop relay from Scotland to Egypt is taking place to hand over the baton, which will carry inside it a climate change message from young people to the decision makers at COP27.
Overtoun Park in Rutherglen, which is also the main base for Grow 73's activities, will be one of the many stages on the handover, encompassing 732 individual stages across 18 countries, totalling a whopping 7200km.
The group will also hold their AGM on the same day, following the baton handover, with food and drink on offer at Overtoun Bowling Club as well.
The group's Eugenie Aroutcheff told Lanarkshire Live: "It's a great event. We are super excited to have been chosen by Keep Scotland Beautiful to be a host for it.
"A member of Keep Scotland Beautiful team will be there as well as the president of Foundation for Environment Education to talk with our community."
The ambitious stunt will be the longest non-stop relay ever attempted with runners, cyclists and sailors working together to ensure the baton can cross seas, mountain ranges, glaciers, and deserts.
It will also visit schools, at-risk locations and climate change projects meeting scientists, engineers and community leaders at the forefront of the green revolution to better understand what is happening to our planet and to inspire local climate action.
The message inside the baton demands quality climate education for all, in the hope that people have the skills, knowledge and opportunities to build sustainable, climate resilient communities, eventually achieving net zero emissions and limiting global warming.
Once in Egypt up to a million pupils from around the world will be brought together on November 3 for a Global Schools Day, ahead of the conference itself beginning on November 6.
Further details on the route can be found here while more information on Grow 73 is available via their Facebook page.
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