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Greta Thunberg arrived in Lisbon on December 3, completing a 20-day journey across the Atlantic to attend the COP25 climate change conference.
Thunberg, 16, was in Lisbon, Portugal yesterday, after nearly three weeks crossing the Atlantic to attend the United Nations Climate Change Summit COP25 in Madrid, Spain.
Greta Thunberg was on a boat nearing to Lisbon on December 3 Photo: Greta Thunberg/Twiter
COP25 started on 2/12 and lasted until 10/12. Thunberg will stop one day in Lisbon before taking the night train to Madrid to speak at the conference.
The La Vagabonde boat is nearly 14 meters long carrying Thunberg, the British maritime restaurant Nikki Henderson and the family of the Austrian owner, departing from the port of Hampton, Virginia, USA on November 13. The child environmental activist crossed the 5,470-km journey by boat instead of flying straight to Madrid because he did not want to use airplanes or vehicles that generate large emissions.
Earlier this week, Thunberg shared a selfie with his companions and wrote: "The 20th day. Our last day at sea! We can smell the land now!"
Lisbon Mayor Fernando Medina and a group of Portuguese youth activists of the "Six Days for the Future of Lisbon" group welcomed Thunberg at the port.
"We need to work together to ensure that we protect the conditions of life for mankind and that we fight not only for ourselves but also for our descendants, for every person living on this earth. ", she spoke at a press conference in the port of Lisbon. "We will go to COP25 in Madrid and will continue to fight there to ensure that inside the walls, everyone's voices will be heard."
The COP25 in Madrid, hosted by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, attracted 25,000 representatives from about 200 countries that signed the 2015 climate change agreement. This is the last meeting of the COP before 2020, at which point the agreement will come into effect.
By signing the Paris Agreement, the member countries agreed that global greenhouse gas emissions must begin to decline from their peak in 2020, otherwise the world will face catastrophic destruction and not reversible.
