LONDON — Swedish climate activist
Greta Thunberg said on Sunday she will skip next month’s COP27 talks in Egypt,
slamming the global summit as a forum for “greenwashing”.
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“I’m not going to
COP27 for many reasons, but the
space for civil society this year is extremely limited,” she said during a
question and answer session at the launch of her latest book at London’s
Southbank Centre.
The 19-year-old activist had previously expressed
solidarity on Twitter with “prisoners of conscience” being held in
Egypt ahead
of the UN’s 27th conference on climate, opening in the Red Sea resort town of
Sharm El-Sheikh on November 6.
“The COPs are mainly used as an opportunity for
leaders and people in power to get attention, using many different kinds of
greenwashing,” she said.
The COP conferences, she added, “are not really
meant to change the whole system”, but instead encourage gradual progress. “So
as it is, the COPs are not really working, unless of course we use them as an
opportunity to mobilize.”
Released on Thursday, Thunberg’s The Climate Book
includes about 100 contributions from various experts, including economist
Thomas Piketty, WHO chief
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, and the writer Naomi
Klein.
Thunberg’s royalties for the book will go to her
eponymous foundation, which will distribute them to charitable organizations
working on environmental issues.
The activist said she wanted the book to “be
educational, which is a bit ironic since my thing is school strikes”, referring
to her protests in front of the Swedish parliament starting in 2018.
Again and again on Sunday, Thunberg called for more
people to get involved in climate activism, saying the time had come for “drastic
changes” to the status quo.
“In order to change things, we need everyone — we need
billions of activists,” she said.
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