00:01Climate activist Greta Thunberg has blasted the annual COP climate summit as being hypocritical.
00:08Attending the talks for the first time since 2021, she urged leaders to put people and the planet ahead of
00:14profits and power.
00:16It's a hypocrisy every year that the host countries are given an opportunity to vice-versa themselves and we know
00:25that these negotiations are filled with lobbyists paid by the very destructive industries which are benefiting from our extremely violent
00:34status quo, our political and economic systems that have become incompatible with human nature.
00:42The two-week COP31 talks kicked off in Turkey earlier this week with governments under pressure to tackle climate change
00:50after a year of searing heatwaves and wildfires in Europe and deadly floods in Nepal.
00:56Electrification and waste reduction are said to be key focus points of this year's negotiations.
01:02Many EU countries are expected to advocate for the role of renewables and the transition away from fossil fuels.
01:08COP31 co-hosts Turkey and Australia are promoting renewable energy and rooftop solar installations, but both still rely heavily on
01:17fossil fuels, especially coal, to generate electricity.
Comments