STOCKHOLM, Aug 20 — Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg said today she hoped to go to the COP26 climate summit in November, months after threatening to skip the event because of unfair vaccine rollouts. “I’ve heard from people that all the delegates will be offered a vaccine,”...
STOCKHOLM, Aug 20 — Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg said today she hoped to go to the COP26 climate summit in November, months after threatening to skip the event because of unfair vaccine rollouts.
The 18-year-old said in April that by November richer countries would be vaccinating young healthy people “very often at the expense of people in risk groups in other parts of the world”. Marking the day with a protest outside the Swedish parliament with other climate activists, she said her campaign had accomplished a lot in three years.“You can either see it as we have been able to mobilise millions of people and raise the level of awareness. But you can also see it as the emissions are still increasing and the changes necessary are still nowhere in sight.
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