New Delhi: Rejecting the global agreement reached at the UN COP26 climate summit, Greta Thunberg called the deal “blah, blah, blah”.
At the COP26 climate summit, India’s climate negotiator, Bhupendra Yadav, advocated changing the phrase, calling for a “phase-down” of “non-stop coal and wasteful fossil fuel subsidies”. Thunberg said the real work is being done outside these walls by activists like him.
Thunberg wrote on his official Twitter handle, “#COP26 is over. Here’s a short summary: blah, blah, blah. But the real work continues outside these halls. And we will never give up.”
NS #COP26 has ended. Here’s a short summary: blah, blah, blah.
But the real work continues outside these halls. And we will never give up. https://t.co/EOne9OogiR
— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) November 13, 2021
Retweeting her previous tweet, the environmental activist said that “winning slowly” equals “losing” on climate change. “Unless we achieve immediate, drastic, unprecedented, annual emissions cuts at source, it means we are failing when it comes to this climate crisis,” she wrote, “in the right direction.” Small steps, “making some progress” or “winning slowly” equals losing,” she said.
The deal reached on Saturday falls short of the most ambitious aim of the 2015 Paris Agreement, which was to keep global warming to 1.5 °C (2.7 °F) over pre-industrial levels. Instead, the delegates left Glasgow with Earth still to explode beyond that barrier, resulting in weather devastation and irreparable environmental damage.
(with inputs from agencies)
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