Greta Thunberg to skip ‘greenwashing’ Cop27 climate summit in Egypt

Swedish climate activist says the UN's climate conference will be used as an opportunity for leaders and people in power to get attention'

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has said she will skip next month's Cop27 talks in Egypt, criticising the global summit as a forum for greenwashing".

I'm not going to Cop27 for many reasons, but the space for civil society this year is extremely limited," she said during a question and answer at the launch of her latest book at London's Southbank Centre.

This article was amended on 31 October 2022: an earlier version stated that Thunberg had criticised Greenpeace for not signing a human rights petition, but that is not in fact the case.