Gauthier Delomez 3:09 p.m., October 20, 2022
The figure of the youth engaged in the fight against global warming, Greta Thunberg, indicated to the BBC that she would not go to the COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, next November.
The 19-year-old Swede wants to let people directly affected by climate change speak out.
It is an absence that will certainly be visible.
Young Swedish activist Greta Thunberg told the BBC that she had no plans to attend COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, November 6-18.
According to passages taken up by the franceinfo site, the figure in the fight against global warming declared that she was "not essential", that we "did not need her", and that other should take their place in this climate conference, especially those who are directly affected by climate disasters.
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"Their voices there will be much more important to hear than mine," said the 19-year-old Swede.
For her, other people need to take up this planetary problem so that the message continues to get through.
A compendium of solutions to climate change
During this interview, Greta Thunberg also praised the various "climate strikes" that have taken place all over the world, and which "have shown that millions of people can mobilize quickly, that there is a desire of change, that a whole generation wants a future".
If the muse of the fight against global warming seems to be stepping back, she is not giving up the battle for all that.
Greta Thunberg will soon publish a collection of solutions to climate change, entitled
The Climate book
and written with scientists.