Thunberg warned that those responsible for the climate crisis “will go as far as they can” and maintained that “it is absurd to listen to them instead of the people who are actually affected.”
The activist, who was briefly detained by the police two days ago in a protest against a coal mine in Germany, returned to this forum, a symbol of globalized capitalism, where in 2020 she faced the then US president Donald Trump.
The 20-year-old Swedish woman participated in a debate along with three other young activists -the Ecuadorian Helena Gualinga, the Ugandan Vanessa Nakate and the German Luisa Neubauer-, in a panel organized by the CNBC chain in which the director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), Fatih Birol, also participated.
The energy sector must be transformed or “we will have no chance of reaching our climate targets,” Birol said.
According to an IEA report published in October, the energy crisis triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is sparking changes that could speed up the transition to a “more sustainable and secure energy system.”
The four activists launched a few days ago, coinciding with the forum, a petition calling on the big companies to stop exploiting fossil fuels, a text that already has more than 900,000 signatures.
“We are taking a very dangerous path, we are already seeing how people suffer on the ground,” Gualinga said today in his speech, quoted by the AFP news agency.
For her part, Nakate tried to hold back tears as she spoke of the impact of the drought in the Horn of Africa. “I am frustrated and very hurt by what is happening and by the inaction,” she lamented.
The order calls on the leaders of large companies to “immediately stop opening new oil, gas or coal extraction sites.”
Climate change is one of the central themes of this year’s Davos, where even the former US vice president Al Gore, now an environmental activist, said yesterday that he “agrees” with Thunberg’s fight.
Likewise, the Secretary General of the United Nations Organization (UN), António Guterres, attacked in a speech against the “big lie of the oil companies, who hid that they had known about global warming for decades” and warned that the objective of limiting it at 1.5 degrees Celsius compared to the pre-industrial era “is fading away”.
Source: Ambito
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