Swedish activist Greta Thunberg said on Saturday that the upcoming climate talks in Glasgow, billed as humanity’s last chance to escape catastrophic global warming, were unlikely to “lead to major change”.
Thunberg, whose Friday for Future movement has inspired massive street protests around the world, said activists need to “push” for real change.
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“As it is now, there will be no major change from this COP, we have to keep going,” he told AFP on the sidelines of a climate concert in Stockholm.
“My hopes are, that suddenly we realize we are facing an existential crisis and act after that,” he said.
The COP26 meeting, to be held in Scotland from 31 October to 12 November, will be the largest climate conference since the historic talks in Paris in 2015, and is seen as an important step in setting worldwide emissions targets to slow global warming. is seen in.
Thunberg said that international summits like COP26 “have the potential to change things because they gather so many people together.
“So we may need to make sure we use that opportunity to really turn things around,” she said.
Thunberg stressed the need to “focus on trying to make up for the loopholes” in order to “really save the planet.”
The Glasgow gathering will seek to persuade major developing economies to do more to cut their carbon emissions, and prompt the rich world to spend billions more to help poor countries adapt to climate change. Will do
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