COP26: 'No More Blah, Blah', Upset Greta Chants With Protesters At Slow Pace Of Climate Action

Climate activist Greta Thunberg joined protesters on Monday at a demonstration outside the COP26 conference to call out world leaders for failing to meet their goals to address global warming.

"We are watching you"

Youth campaigners from several countries marched on the opposite bank of the River Clyde from where the UN climate summit was being held in Glasgow, holding banners with slogans such as "We are watching you."

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Swedish activist Greta Thunberg accused world leaders and government officials inside the conference of "pretending to take our future seriously."??

"No more blah blah blah," said Thunberg, whose solo climate strikes in 2018 gained international attention, said outside the summit. "No more whatever the f--k they're doing inside there."

1.2 million signatures?

An open letter from Thunberg and fellow youth climate activists Vanessa Nakate, Dominika Lasota and Mitzi Tan drew over 1.2 million signatures as protests played out on Monday.

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Earlier on Monday, Kenyan climate activist Elizabeth Wathuti made an impassioned appeal to world leaders to "open your hearts" to those already feeling the effects of global warming, saying that drought in her home country means many are going without food.

"As I sit comfortably here in this conference center in Glasgow, over 2 million of my fellow Kenyans are facing climate-related starvation," she said.

COP26 climate summit??

More than 100 world leaders — as well as thousands of diplomats and business leaders — converged on Glasgow, Scotland, on Oct 31 to try to set new emissions reduction goals at the COP26 climate summit.

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Dozens of world leaders representing over 85% of the world's forests vowed on Monday to reverse deforestation and land degradation by 2030.