Greta Thunberg goes home to Sweden after a week at COP26 in Glasgow
Thunberg has been very critical of the Cop26 talks, which begin its second and final week, with countries under pressure to increase emissions reduction measures to avoid dangerous warming and provide funding for poorer nations to cope with climate change.
The 18-year-old activist, who inspired the youth climate strike movement with his school protest that started in 2018, was not invited to formally speak at the Cop26 conference.
She told young protesters at a march on Friday that the UN talks were “now a global North Greenwash festival, a two-week celebration of business as usual and blah blah blah” and branded it a failure.
It is understood that she left Glasgow this weekend and traveled by train back to Stockholm.
Thunberg was off school last week due to the autumn break and had decided to only attend the first week of the Cop26 conference to avoid missing too many school days.
During her time in Glasgow, she met a number of leading figures, attended several meetings and socialized with Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
She made the air blue at a rally in the city’s Festival Park across the Clyde River in Govan.
Addressing a predominantly youthful audience as the SEC continues, he said: “Within the COP, only politicians and those in power pretend to take our future seriously. We say, ‘No more blah blah blah, no more exploitation of humans and nature and the planet. “
“No more what the hell they’re doing in there.”