Teenage environmental activist Greta Thunberg tells world leaders their inaction on climate change has failed and betrayed her generation
Some 60 world leaders gather at UN for a"climate emergency" summit aimed at reinvigorating the faltering Paris agreement, at a time when mankind is releasing more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than at any time in history.
"We are in the beginning of mass extinction, and all you can talk about is the money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth," the Swedish climate activist said.UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres kicked off a summit on Monday telling the audience that "climate emergency is a race we are losing, but it is a race we can win."
"And young people – above all, young people – are here providing solutions, insisting on accountability, demanding urgent action. They are right," he said. Some 60 world leaders, the European Union, more than a dozen companies and banks, a few cities and a state will present plans at Secretary-General Antonio Guterres' Climate Action Summit.
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