New Delhi: Dismissing the global agreement reached at United Nations COP26 climate summit, Greta Thunberg called the deal as "blah, blah, blah."
At the COP26 climate summit, Bhupender Yadav, India's climate negotiator, advocated changing the phrase asking for the "phaseout of unabated coal and wasteful fossil fuel subsidies" to "phase-down." Thunberg said that the real work is being conducted outside these walls by activists like her.
Thunberg on her official Twitter handle writes, “The #COP26 is over. Here's a brief summary: Blah, blah, blah. But the real work continues outside these halls. And we will never give up, ever.”
Retweeting her previous tweet, the environmental activist said that "winning slowly" in terms of climate change is equivalent to "losing." "Unless we achieve immediate, drastic, unprecedented, annual emission cuts at the source then that means we're failing when it comes to this climate crisis,” she had written, adding “small steps in the right direction, “making some progress” or “winning slowly” equals losing,” she said.
The deal reached on Saturday falls short of the most ambitious objective of the 2015 Paris Agreement, which was to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) over preindustrial levels. Instead, delegates departed Glasgow with the Earth still on course to blast beyond that barrier, resulting in worsening weather catastrophes and irreparable environmental harm.
(With inputs from Agencies)