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Greta Thunberg, the 18-year-old Swedish climate activist whose school strike inspired young people the world over to take action on climate change, criticized world leaders on Friday for allowing the “exploitation of people and nature.”
“The leaders are not doing nothing,” Ms. Thunberg said, addressing a crowd of thousands marching in Glasgow outside the United Nations climate summit. “They are actively creating loopholes, shaping frameworks to benefit themselves to continue profiting from this destructive system.”
Ms. Thunberg is one of the most well-known climate activists in the world. She has painted a grim portrait of the summit in Glasgow where officials from all over the world are trying reach agreements to reduce their emissions and keep the global average temperature from rising to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels by the end this century.
Speaking on the sidelines of the summit on Thursday, Ms. Thunberg said that COP26 was “sort of turning into a greenwash campaign, a P.R. campaign,” for business leaders and politicians to pretend that they are taking action on global warming without following through.
“Since we are so far from what actually we needed,” Ms. Thunberg said at a New York Times event in Glasgow, “I think what would be considered a success would be if people realize what a failure this COP is.”
Leaders and business executives made significant commitments. More than 100 countries committed to reducing methane emissions by 30 percent by 2030, a potent greenhouse-gas. And on Wednesday a coalition of the world’s biggest investors, banks and insurers that collectively control $130 trillion said they were committed to financing projectsThis would enable countries and companies to have net-zero emissions by the year 2050.
However, environmentalists have criticised the financing pledge for not being clear enough.
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