Greta Thunberg

“Stop greenwashing!” That’s how Greta Thunberg walked out of a session on carbon offsets last Thursday at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. The day before, a group of Indigenous activists held a protest on the same topic, calling offsets “a new form of colonialism.” Even Al Gore chimed in,…

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GRETA Thunberg is right. The climate crisis isn’t a climate crisis. It is bigger and older. And it is based on the idea that some people are worth more than others, an idea that licences the powerful to steal the land and resources of the weak and the meek...Read More

COP26 is already a “failure”, Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has claimed.  Speaking to a crowd of thousands in Glasgow where the summit is being held, the 18 year old branded the talks “a two-week long celebration of business as usual and ‘blah, blah, blah’.” Instead, she called for "immediate…

Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg on Friday branded the UN climate summit in Glasgow a “failure” during a mass protest in the Scottish city demanding swifter action from leaders to address the emergency. Thunberg said pledges from some nations made during COP26 to accelerate their emissions cuts amounted to little more…

Youth activists have played a big role in promoting the urgency of acting on climate change, and they showed up in massive numbers at the COP26 summit Environment 5 November 2021 By Michael Marshall, Graham Lawton and Adam Vaughan Demonstrators walk through Glasgow, UK, during the Fridays For Future march…

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1of36People walk past posters placed by climate activists ahead of a protest march by them through the streets of Glasgow, Scotland, Friday, Nov. 5, 2021 which is the host city of the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit. The protest was taking place as leaders and activists from around the world were…

Demonstrators march through Glasgow on Nov. 5, the sixth day of the COP26 climate summit. The gathering of world leaders and scientists continues until Nov. 12.Danny Lawson/PA via AP Environmental activist Greta Thunberg led thousands of young people through the streets of Glasgow on Friday and then delivered a withering…

G reta Thunberg accused world leaders of offering more “blah, blah, blah” at the COP26 summit as she addressed protesters at a climate change rally. The activist, 18, branded the summit the “greenwash festival” and said countries in the Northern Hemisphere were “still refusing to take drastic action on the…