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The sailboat Malizia II, in which the young Swedish activist Greta Thunberg has crossed the Atlantic for 14 days, since leaving the port of Plymouth (United Kingdom) has anchored in Coney Island, in New York, where she will disembark at 14.45, at 8:45 p.m. in Spain.

In the port of North Cove Marina the young activist has been for 17 sailboats that will represent the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals. The young woman travels accompanied by her father, Svante Thunberg, the camera Nathan Grossman, the owner of Malizia II and captain, Pierre Caseraghi, and the sailor Boris Herrmann.

Before dawn on Wednesday, Thunberg spread a photo in his social networks with the distant lights of New York with the message : "Earth! The lights of Long Island and New York ahead," he says.

The young woman refused to travel by plane because of the CO2 emission. Therefore, he decided to sail from the port of Plymouth (United Kingdom) on August 14.

Greta's intention is to join the two great global marches against climate change, organized for the next 20 and 27 September and attend the UN Climate Action Assembly in New York organized by the Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, the September 23, where he will deliver a speech on climate change.

His fight began on August 20, 2018, in which he was absent from school every Friday to protest in front of the Swedish Parliament for the environmental struggle. During the next few months the young woman will tour America.

Given its refusal to arrive in America by plane due to the high impact on greenhouse gas emissions, Greta opted to embark on the Malizia II sailboat, powered by solar energy and underwater turbines that do not emit CO2.

At present, Greta is taking a sabbatical school year and will try to participate in numerous events in North America, where she will meet with some of the populations that are most affected by climate change and ecological emergency, with political activists and decision makers.

Also, the Swedish teenager intends to travel to Canada and Mexico. Subsequently, he will travel to Chile to participate in the UN Conference of the Parties against Climate Change (COP25), which will be held this year from December 2 to 13 in Santiago, Chile. He also plans to visit other cities in South America that are also important to address the climate crisis.

Together with Greta, his father, Svante Thunberg and film director Nathan Grossman of B-Reel Films, will document the crossing. The ship will be captained by the Boris Herrmann corridor and Malizia team founder Pierre Casiraghi, who will donate their time and knowledge for the crossing of Greta across the Atlantic. The trip has been jointly organized by Greta, Team Malizia and B-Reel Films.

The Malizia Team has also developed the Malizia Ocean Challenge, a project to support climate education and monitor CO2 in the ocean. The project is supported by the Prince Albert II Foundation of Monaco, an organization that is responsible for environmental and climate projects.

Thunberg said before leaving that in his opinion the events in New York and Santiago de Chile will show if during all these months world leaders have listened to science and young people around the world who have raised their voices against climate change and The weather emergency.

"I will be there, even if the trip is too long and difficult. We will make our voices heard. This is the line of our future and we should at least be able to have something to say there. Science is clear and all of us young and children we are communicating and acting like that united science. And our demand is for the world to be united behind that science, "he said.

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