Climate activist Greta Thunberg has called out November's United Nations climate summit in Egypt for being 'held in a tourist paradise in a country that violates many basic human rights.'
by Reuters, Daily MaverickCOP27 an opportunity for ‘greenwashing, lying and cheating’ – Greta Thunberg by Reuters, Daily Maverick October 31, 2022 Speaking at the London Literature Festival at the Southbank Centre where she was promoting her new book, "The Climate Book", 19-year-old Thunberg dismissed the looming climate summit, known as COP27, as an opportunity for"people in power... to [use] greenwashing, lying and cheating.
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