Milan: Climate activist Greta Thunberg on Tuesday said that much has been promised but little done to tackle global warming in almost three decades since the landmark Earth Summit.
“Thirty years of blah, blah, blah,” Thunberg told the opening session of a Youth4Climate event on Tuesday.
Thousands of young activists have converged on Milan this week with some 400, from about 190 countries, due to engaging with policymakers to hammer out proposals for possible solutions, ZeeNews reported.
“So-called leaders have cherry picked young people to meetings like this to pretend they are listening to us, but they are not listening,” Thunberg was quoted as saying.
“There is no planet B … Change is not only possible but necessary but not if we go on like we have until today.”
The youth activists, who fought to get climate change to the top of the global agenda years after leaders at the 1992 Rio Summit in Brazil pledged to tackle environmental problems, are being challenged to help come up with the solutions ahead of the COP26 United Nations summit in November.
Their proposals will be vetted by climate and energy ministers gathering at the same venue for their pre-COP26 meeting, and some will find their way to the Glasgow summit, the report added.
