Swedish teen environmental activist Greta Thunberg said the United Nations climate conference in Scotland is being missed because of concerns about inequality in access to the COVID-19 vaccine.
“Of course I would love to attend Glasgow # COP26,” Thunberg said he said on Twitter.
“But unless everyone can participate under the same conditions. Right now, many countries are vaccinating healthy young people, often at the expense of risk groups and front-line workers (mainly from the south of the world, as usual …) ”, wrote the 18-year-old.
“If people can’t be vaccinated and travel is represented equally, this is undemocratic and would make the problem worse,” he continued.
Thunberg, who gained fame in 2018 for his lone protest in front of the Swedish parliament in Stockholm, first expressed his concerns about the November summit in an interview with the BBC.
He told the newspaper that the summit should be postponed.
“It simply came to our notice then. Of course, the best we could do would be to vaccinate everyone as soon as possible so that everyone could participate (in the conference) on the same terms, ”said Thunberg.
With publishing cables