Europe 1 with AFP 3:49 p.m., January 20, 2023
On the sidelines of the 53rd summit of the World Economic Forum in Davos, activist Greta Thunberg and a few activists demonstrated for "climate justice".
They accused the global elite gathered in the Swiss city of not doing enough to save the planet.
Greta Thunberg and other young climate activists took part in a small protest in Davos on Friday, accusing the global elite gathered in the Swiss city of not doing enough to save the planet.
"What do we want? Climate justice! When do we want it? Now!"
: this is the slogan chanted by the thirty demonstrators who gathered, in freezing temperatures and with "SOS" signs, on the road leading to the congress center where the World Economic Forum (WEF) is organizing its meeting this week annual.
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"Planet Earth around us is in immense pain"
"I don't think we realize, feel and understand in places with so much wealth, and power, and greed, that the planet Earth around us is in immense pain" , accused the Pakistani Ayisha Siddiqa, who also participated in round tables organized by the WEF this week in Davos.
Pakistan was devastated by floods last year, killing more than 1,700 people.
Experts believe that climate change will lead to more and more extreme events of this type.
Greta Thunberg did not make a statement during the protest.
But she had participated in an event organized on the sidelines of the WEF meeting on Thursday, where she accused the political and economic elites present in Davos of being "the people who most fuel the destruction of the planet".