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COP 26 Day 5 | Young people raise their voices<\/h2>\nCOP 26 Day 5 | Young people raise their voices<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Euronews Green delivers a Special COP26 email to my mailbox every day during the two weeks it is running (01-12 November 2021). I’ll publish it in its entirety for those who are interested. This is the fourth in the series.<\/p>\n
After world leaders, financiers and energy experts had their say, COP26 turned its focus to young people and marginalised communities on Friday.<\/p>\n
“What do we want? Climate justice! When do we want it? Now!” thousands of mostly young protesters chanted as they took to the streets of Glasgow<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n Instead of the optimistic statements by officials over the past few days, activists slammed COP26 as a \u201cfailure\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cWe will not accept it,\u201d climate activist Greta Thunberg<\/u><\/strong><\/a> told a buzzing crowd at the Fridays for Future march. She compared the summit to a \u201cglobal north greenwash festival\u201d and finished with, \u201cthis is shameful\u201d.<\/p>\n Young people raised their voices not just outside the summit venue but also inside. The COP26 Presidency said the views of over 40,000 young climate leaders were presented to ministers and negotiators at a meeting today.<\/p>\n However, young activists said they were not sure they were being heard. \u201cI feel like I\u2019m being seen,\u201d said Brianna Fruean, a 23-year-old activist from Samoa at the beginning of the conference. But – \u201cI will know if I\u2019ve been heard by the end of COP.\u201d<\/p>\n In other news today, a study by Oxfam charity found that the world\u2019s richest 1 per cent would emit 30 times more carbon dioxide than the amount deemed compatible with the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5C. The world’s richest “appear to have a free pass to pollute<\/u><\/strong><\/a>,” Oxfam said.<\/p>\n If you weren’t able to follow along on Thursday, here are the 5 key takeaways <\/u><\/strong><\/a>from day 4 of COP26.<\/p>\n Meet the activists who walked from London to Glasgow to raise awareness, engagement and action on the climate crisis. Over the course of 26 days, the hikers battled rain, wind and storms to arrive on time for the beginning of COP26. The young Swedish activist spoke with urgency, attacking the climate conference itself on the Youth Stage at COP26 today. \u201cCOP has turned into a PR event where leaders are giving beautiful speeches and fancy commitments and targets,\u201d she said. Phoebe Hanson felt powerless, alone and afraid when she first learned about climate change as a teenager. But instead of giving in to feelings of despair, she has turned her own experience into a tool for helping other young people suffering from eco-anxiety. COP 26 Day 5 | Young people raise their voices Euronews Green delivers a Special COP26 email to my mailbox every day during the two weeks it is running (01-12 November 2021). I’ll publish it in its entirety for those who are interested. This is the fourth in the series. Today’s takeaway After world […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3723,4695,4710],"class_list":["post-45774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-climate-change","tag-cop26","tag-word","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/h4>\nClimate activists walk 820km in 26 days to reach COP26<\/h4>\n
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<\/p>\nGreta Thunberg speaks to thousands: ‘COP26 is a PR event to fight for the status quo’<\/h4>\n
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<\/p>\nMeet the young people turning eco-anxiety into eco-activism<\/h4>\n
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