Greta Thunberg, an environmental campaigner, is in Glasgow for the COP26 session.
The 18-year-old is one of the most well-known climate activists in the world.
What has Greta Thunberg said about COP26?
The climate summit, according to Greta Thunberg, was a “PR exercise” and a “disaster.”
She said, “26 COPs, they have had decades of blah, blah, blah — and where has it gotten us?” in response to a teenage demonstration in Glasgow.
She has also criticised efforts to reduce emissions that contribute to global warming “We require objectives beyond those for 2030 or 2050. Above all, we will need them in 2020 and in each and every month and year that follows.”
Thunberg has refrained from discussing the specifics of what should be done, adding that “it is nothing to do with me.”
Who is Greta Thunberg?
When she demonstrated in front of the Swedish parliament in 2018, Thunberg, then 15 years old, rose to fame.
She urged the government to reach its carbon emissions objectives while holding a sign that read, “School Strike for Climate.”
Her modest initiative had an international impact, motivating thousands of young people to plan their own strikes.
In order to protest, she was joined by more than 20,000 students by the end of 2018 from the UK to Japan.
She won the first of three Nobel Peace Prize nominations for her work on climate change a year later.
Thunberg travelled by yacht across the Atlantic in 2019 to New York to attend a UN climate meeting.
She passionately admonished world leaders they weren’t doing enough in what is arguably her most famous address.
“You all come to us young people for hope. How dare you? You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words,” she said.
What do people say about her?
Climate activists, scientists, and public leaders have backed Thunberg.
Sir David Attenborough, a biologist and broadcaster, informed her that she had succeeded in ways that many others had not, adding: “You’ve roused everyone on Earth. You have my sincere gratitude.”
Every nation, every city, every school, every friendship group, and every family needs their own Greta, Prince Harry said in praising Thunberg’s activism.
According to Alok Sharma, the head of the COP26 summit, Thunberg’s 2019 UN speech left him feeling “very uncomfortable” because it served as a “mirror” to his age.
Politicians, though, have not all been as gracious.
She should “work on her anger management problem,” Donald Trump tweeted, while Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, called her a “nice but badly informed youngster.”
Asperger syndrome is a developmental disability that Thunberg, who has called it a blessing, has. She claimed that being unique can be a “superpower.”
Malena Ernman, the mother of Thunberg, is an opera singer and a previous contestant in the Eurovision Song Contest.
Svante Thunberg, her father, is an actor and the great-grandson of a physicist who developed a model of the greenhouse effect.
