“It's no secret that COP26 is a failure,” climate activist Greta Thunberg told thousands of young people.
They gathered on Friday 5 November to march through the streets of Glasgow as delegates from nearly 200 countries gathered in this Scottish city for the 26th Conference of the Parties.
"This is no longer a conference on the climate", assured the young Swedish girl in front of the children, adolescents and young adults gathered, denouncing a "world festival of greenwashing".
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Protesters are calling for swift action from leaders on climate change that threatens their generation and those that follow.
The planet is heading towards a “catastrophic” global warming of + 2.7 ° C, according to the latest UN estimates.
An increase well above the objectives of the Paris Agreement adopted in 2015, which aims to limit this warming to + 1.5 ° C.
