Greta Thunberg has denounced the COP26 summit in Glasgow for being the ‘most excluding COP ever’ and called the international conference a ‘greenwash festival’.
The 18-year-old climate change activist, who arrived in Glasgow by train on Sunday, slammed world leaders attending COP26 and said it was instead ‘a two week celebration of business as usual’.
The Swede walked out of a panel discussion with former governor of the Bank of England and UN climate envoy Mark Carney.
Greta shouted “this is greenwashing” as she left early.
In a post on Twitter yesterday the young campaigner wrote: “#COP26 has been named the must excluding COP ever. This is no longer a climate conference. This is a Global North greenwash festival. A two week celebration of business as usual and blah blah blah.”
Her comments come just days after she criticised world leaders for ‘whatever the f*** they are doing in there’ during a demonstration at Festival Park in Glasgow.
On Monday Greta said heads of government were not doing enough to save the planet from disaster at a demonstration on the first day of the Cop26 summit.
She said: “No more blah blah blah, no more whatever the f*** they are doing inside there.
“Inside Cop, there are just politicians and people in power pretending to take our future seriously, pretending to take the present seriously.
“Change is not going to come from inside there, that is not leadership - this is leadership... We say no more blah blah blah, no more exploitation of people and the planet.”
She then led a chant of: ‘You can shove your climate crisis up your a***’.
On Monday morning, Greta along with fellow campaigner Vanessa Nakate, from Uganda, met with Nicola Sturgeon.
The First Minister tweeted: ‘The voices of young people like @GretaThunberg and @vanessa-vash must be heard loudly and clearly at Cop26 - the next few days should not be comfortable for leaders, the responsibility to act must be felt.’
Greta has previously been critical of the Scottish Government’s climate policy, saying the country was ‘not a leader on climate change’, as the First Minister had previously stated.
Announcing her pledge to her five million followers on Twitter, the 18-year-old said: “I am pleased to announce that I’ve decided to go net-zero on swear words and bad language.
“In the event that I should say something inappropriate, I pledge to compensate that by saying something nice.”
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