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The Swedish environmental and climate activist Greta Thunberg wants to stay away from the UN climate conference in Glasgow in November due to the uneven global distribution of corona vaccines.
"Given the extremely uneven distribution of the vaccine, I will not attend the COP26 conference if the development continues as before," Thunberg said in an interview published on Friday with the AFP news agency in Stockholm.
The disadvantage of poorer countries in the vaccine supply means that the countries cannot participate in the climate summit on the same terms.
“Of course I would love to come to Glasgow.
But many countries vaccinate young, healthy people, often at the expense of risk groups, doctors and nurses, mostly from the global south, ”she added on“ Twitter ”.
“We don't have to wait for conferences or summits to drastically cut our emissions.
A digital conference is not ideal.
Fast internet and access to computers are extremely unevenly distributed around the world, ”she continued.
"In this case, those voices that need to be heard most about the climate crisis would be missing."
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The UN climate conference COP26 had been postponed by one year to November 2021 due to the corona pandemic.
At the mammoth conference with numerous heads of state and government, the states of the Paris Agreement of 2015 are to present their new climate protection commitments.
In the climate protection agreement, the signatories agreed to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees compared to the pre-industrial age.
Yet carbon emissions continue to grow every year, partly because global energy demand continues to grow.