Greta Thunberg

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The international COP26 climate summit in Glasgow has wrapped up with a global pledge, but climate activists, including Greta Thunberg, have dismissed it as a weak response to the climate crisis. CBS News reporter Cara Korte joins CBSN's Elaine Quijano to explain what the agreement involves. Read More

Not everyone was happy with the final deal at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow.Environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg expressed her dissatisfaction with the outcomes and said the real work continues 'outside these halls'.UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres also acknowledged the shortcomings of the agreement and warned of an impending 'climate catastrophe'.Paris…

Nearly 200 countries accepted an agreement to combat climate change on Saturday in Glasgow, Scotland, marking an end to weeks of negotiation at the United Nations' COP26 meeting. But many environmentalists warned it does not go far enough—especially with a last-minute compromise on coal power. The plan includes a flurry…

A Greek restaurant helped Greta Thunberg escape huge crowds in the streets after the Swedish campaigner gave her powerful COP26 speech. The activist had just delivered her broadside to world leaders about climate inaction when she stopped to refuel at Elia in Glasgow’s George Square. As her party dined, a…

“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…