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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg delivers a speech during the opening plenary session of the Youth4Climate event on 28 September 2021 in Milan. Picture: Miguel Medina/AFP

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Climate activist Greta Thunberg slams Boris Johnson over COP private jet

By AFP

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson jetted in to the make-or-break COP26 conference from Rome where he was attending a G20 meeting.

  • Youth activists shout as they march to protest climate inaction on the side-lines of the COP26 UN Climate Summit in Glasgow on 5 November 2021. Picture: AFP

    COP26 braces for climate protests on Global Day of Action

    Glasgow is bracing for protests against what campaigners say is a lack of urgency to address global warming after Greta Thunberg labelled the UN climate summit a "failure".

    231 days ago
  • Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg speaks to the crowd in George Square the end point for the Fridays For Future rally on 5 November 2021. Picture: AFP

    Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg labels COP26 'failure' as youth demand action

    Greta Thunberg has branded the UN climate summit in Glasgow a "failure" during a mass protest demanding quicker action to address the emergency.

    231 days ago
  • FILE: Teen activist Greta Thunberg poses for a picture after an interview ahead of the Global Climate Strike march on 20 September 2019 in New York City. Picture: AFP.

    Press freedom, Belarus opposition or Greta for Nobel Peace Prize?

    The highlight of the Nobel season, the prestigious peace prize always elicits a flurry of speculation. But predicting the winner is a giant guessing game.

    262 days ago
  • Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg delivers a speech during the opening plenary session of the Youth4Climate event on 28 September 2021 in Milan. Picture: Miguel Medina/AFP

    Thunberg slams 30 years of climate 'empty words'

    Speaking weeks ahead of a crunch UN climate meeting in Glasgow, Thunberg accused governments of "shamelessly congratulating themselves" for insufficient pledges to cut emissions and promises of financing.

    269 days ago
  • FILE: Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg. Picture: AFP.

    Thunberg says UN climate draft forces world to 'face reality'

    While the draft from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change confirmed that the "situation is very dire" and that there is a "need to act right now", the 18-year-old climate activist said it also made her hopeful since it "could wake people up".

    366 days ago
  • FILE: Greta Thunberg Picture: Liv Oeian/123rf.com

    Jill Biden and Kate meet Greta's literary avatar at G7

    Biden and Kate met for the first time on the margins of the summit in Cornwall, southwest England, touring a school in Hayle, near the summit venue at Carbis Bay.

    378 days ago
  • Climate change activist Greta Thunberg addresses the UN climate change forum (COP25) in Madrid on 11 December 2019. Picture: @Agent350/Twitter.

    Greta Thunberg to skip COP26 over unfair vaccine rollouts

    The 18-year-old activist deplored that by November richer countries would be vaccinating young healthy people 'very often at the expense of people in risk groups in other parts of the world.'

    442 days ago
  • Greta Thunberg. © Liv Oeian/123rf.com

    Hundreds nominated for Peace Prize: Nobel Institute

    The total of 329 falls short of the record set in 2016, when the institute was faced with 376 nominations.

    480 days ago
  • Security personnel stand guard as demonstrators take part in a march organised in support of farmers protesting against the central government’s recent agricultural reforms in New Delhi on 3 February 2021. Money Sharma/AFP

    Tendulkar, actors, among celebrities slamming Rihanna for farmers' protest tweet

    Sporting legend Sachin Tendulkar and a host of Bollywood stars hit out at what the foreign ministry called "sensationalist" Twitter comments.

    506 days ago
  • Demonstrators take part in a march organised in support of farmers protesting against the central government’s recent agricultural reforms in New Delhi, India, on 3 February 2021. Picture: Money SHARMA/AFP

    Rihanna, Greta Thunberg anger India by backing protesting farmers

    Tens of thousands of farmers have been camped on the outskirts of India's capital New Delhi since November, calling for a repeal of laws they fear will allow large corporations to crush them.

    507 days ago
  • FILE: Donald Trump on 12 January 2021. Picture: AFP.

    Greta Thunberg wishes 'old man' Trump a 'wonderful future'

    The teenager was reversing a barb that Trump -- who frequently disputes the science behind climate change -- had aimed at her in 2019.

    520 days ago
  • Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg takes to the podium to address young activists and their supporters during the rally for action on climate change on 27 September 2019 in Montreal, Canada. Picture: AFP

    Greta Thunberg Foundation donates to Africa climate projects

    The Greta Thunberg Foundation was set up in December 2019 and the donations were made possible after she was awarded the Portuguese Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity in July, which included one million euros.

    639 days ago
  • FILE: Climate change activist Greta Thunbergy. Picture: AFP.

    Film reveals Greta Thunberg as steely, funny and a secret dancer

    The Swedish teenager allowed film-maker Nathan Grossman to follow her for a year after he met her in 2018 on the very first day of her schools' strike.

    658 days ago
  • FILE: Climate activist Greta Thunberg at the World Economic Forum in Davos on 21 January 2020. Picture: World Economic Forum/Sandra Blaser

    Thunberg: World must 'tear up' old contracts, build new systems to save climate

    The climate activist cited a UN study published in November that suggested planned investments to boost fossil fuel production are likely to push temperature goals enshrined in the 2015 Paris Agreement out of reach.

    708 days ago
  • Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg speaks to AFP during an interview aboard La Vagabonde, the boat she will be taking to return to Europe, in Hampton, Virginia, on 12 November 2019. Picture: AFP.

    Greta Thunberg says anti-racism protests show society at 'tipping point'

    In a BBC interview, Thunberg said 'people are starting to find their voice, to sort of understand that they can actually have an impact'.

    735 days ago
  • FILE: Climate activist Greta Thunberg at the World Economic Forum in Davos on 21 January 2020. Picture: World Economic Forum/Sandra Blaser

    New spider species named after Greta Thunberg

    Thunberga gen. nov. is a new genus of huntsman spiders from Madagascar, described by German arachnologist Peter Jager, and named after the wunderkind in honour of her commitment to tackling climate change.

    740 days ago
  • Climate change activist Greta Thunberg addresses the UN climate change forum (COP25) in Madrid on 11 December 2019. Picture: @Agent350/Twitter.

    Thunberg donates $100,000 to support children during pandemic

    Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has donated a $100,000 prize she won from a Danish foundation to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) for use against the COVID-19 pandemic, the world body said Thursday.

    786 days ago
  • Picture: Pixabay.com

    Fight climate change like coronavirus: UN

    The UN's World Meteorological Organization said it was time to flatten the curve on climate change, with its impact on the planet "reaching a crescendo" in the past five years - the hottest on record.

    793 days ago
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