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Climate activist Greta Thunberg slams Boris Johnson over COP private jet
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson jetted in to the make-or-break COP26 conference from Rome where he was attending a G20 meeting.
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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".
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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".
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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'.
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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.
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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.
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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.
