Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg has arrived in Portugal after traveling across the Atlantic on a catamaran ahead of the COP25 climate conference. She will lead demonstrations in Madrid on Friday, and has called for another protest the following week.
Around 25,000 people from 200 countries are descending on Madrid this week to attend the COP25 climate change conference. They include dozens of heads of state and government, business leaders, scientists and, of course, activists -- including Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg.United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said Sunday that the summit marks the"point of no return" in humanity's fight against climate change.
But we need to act quickly. To make meeting the reduction targets even remotely possible, global leaders must come up with a practical plan for cutting emissions in the next two weeks. How to travel without destroying the planetSome rules were agreed at the COP24 conference in Poland last year. But that meeting failed to agree the rules for a new international emission-trading system, a crucial part of the plan. That discussion is back on the agenda this year.
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