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Activist Greta Thunberg arrives at UN climate talks in Turkey

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The 23-year-old is attending her first UN climate summit since 2021, when she dismissed global leaders’ promises as ‘blah, blah, blah’

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Prominent climate change activist Greta Thunberg arrived Tuesday at the UN climate meeting, where she emphasised the need to protect people and the planet over profits and power.

This year’s meeting – called the Conference of the Parties, or Cop31 – comes after a year of climate-induced heatwaves and other disasters.

As she arrived at the meeting venue in Antalya, Turkey, Thunberg, 23, said climate change is “threatening everything” and that “everything and everyone we love is at stake”.

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