Plogger calls for Cop29 leaders to give ‘disappointed’ youth ‘climate optimism’

Plogger Vivek Gurav completed a 30-day clean-up challenge in 30 different parts of London this summer (Vivek Gurav/PA) -

An environmentalist behind the world’s largest “plogging” community has called on leaders at Cop29 to offer “climate optimism” amid widespread disappointment among young people.

Vivek Gurav, 29, who lives in Wembley, north-west London, started plogging – jogging and litter picking – in 2019, in his home city of Pune in western India.