Greta Thunberg calls UN climate COPs 'greenwashed circuses'

Greta Thunberg criticised the UN's annual climate summits as "greenwashed circuses" on Tuesday after arriving at the COP31 conference in Antalya, Turkey.

The Swedish climate activist said the meetings remained an opportunity to mobilise people, but argued they were not enough to prevent a climate catastrophe.

"We are here as activists to push those people in power to actually implement what they have been talking about for decades and decades," Thunberg said.

She also criticised Turkey as host, saying it was "violating many basic human rights".

Thunberg had not taken part in the UN climate conferences since Glasgow in 2021.