Thousands of young people demonstrated on Friday in the streets of Glasgow (United Kingdom) at the end of the first week of the COP26 world climate conference, accusing the great of this world of inaction in the face of the climate change which threatens their generation and the following.
Among those present, the face of young people for the climate, the Swedish Greta Thunberg, who castigated a conference revolving around “blah”.
Wow.
This is truly what people power looks like. # FridaysForFuture #UprootTheSystem https://t.co/4UiaoUd7e1
- Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) November 5, 2021
"It's no secret that COP26 is a failure," she told several thousand children, adolescents and young adults, calling the conference a "celebration of
business as usual
(to
pretend
nothing was, in French) and blabla ”.
“Our leaders are not showing the way, this is what leadership looks like,” she continued, pointing to the crowd.
"Our kings are naked (...) History will judge them severely", she said of the leaders gathered for the COP, accusing them once again of inaction and again evoking a "greenwashing festival" .
"No planet B"
Many little Scots had missed school this Friday, to sing in their clear voices in the streets of Glasgow with young people from all over the world.
The inhabitants, leaning out of their windows or lined up along the streets of the old town center lined with ocher or pink sandstone buildings, watched the march dotted with a banner displaying "No planet B" and chanting "If it is not. now so when will it be?
".
Participating in # COP26 is also participating in the Friday climate march #FridaysForFuture!
We must be on all fronts in the face of the climate crisis 🌍 @ CHYouth4Climate @GretaThunberg @Luisamneubauer #ClimateStrike # COP26Glasgow pic.twitter.com/WmPDd6O1uT
- Jean-Valentin de Saussure (@JVdeSaussure) November 5, 2021
A second day of protests is scheduled for Saturday in the Scottish city, at the end of the first of two weeks of COP26, to recall the climate emergency in the face of the devastating effects across the planet of rising temperatures due to gas emissions greenhouse effect generated by human activities.
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Protesters cry out for the climate emergency, in the face of the devastating effects of rising temperatures due to greenhouse gas emissions, generated by human activities.
These gases reach a "catastrophic" increase of 2.7 ° C, according to the UN, which exceeds the maximum increase of 2 ° C recommended by the Paris agreement in 2015 to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
In recent days, new commitments have been announced by India, Brazil, Argentina and the United States, which are committed to replacing their investments in fossil fuels abroad, in green energies from by the end of 2022.
