Greta Thunberg wants to stay away from the UN climate summit – because of the vaccine distribution
Greta Thunberg sets the conditions for her attendance at the United Nations Climate Conference
Source: AP / Michael Probst
Despite Greta Thunberg’s commitment to saving the global climate, she apparently wants to stay away from the UN Climate Conference. The activist cites the global distribution of Corona vaccines as a reason.
DrSwedish environmental and climate activist Greta Thunberg wants to stay away from the United Nations Climate Conference in Glasgow in November due to the uneven global distribution of Corona vaccines. “Given the unequal distribution of the vaccine, I will not attend the COP26 if development continues as before,” Thunberg said in an interview published Friday with Agence France-Presse in Stockholm.
The disadvantage of poor countries in supplying vaccines means that countries cannot participate in the climate summit on the same terms. Of course I would like to come to Glasgow. She added that many countries are vaccinating healthy young people, often at the expense of high-risk groups, doctors and nurses, most of them from the Global South. Twitter.
“We don’t have to wait for conferences or summits to cut our emissions drastically. The digital conference is not perfect. The speed of the Internet and access to computers is very unevenly distributed around the world.” “In that case, those voices that should be heard more about the climate crisis will be missing.”
COP26 has been postponed for one year until November 2021 due to the Corona pandemic. At the mega conference with many heads of state and government, the countries of the 2015 Paris Agreement are set to present their new commitments to climate protection.
In the Climate Protection Agreement, the signatories agreed to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees compared to the pre-industrial era. However, carbon emissions continue to increase every year, in part due to continued growth in global energy demand.