Greta Thunberg was on her way to attend COP25 but got stuck when the venue for the event got changed from Chile to Spain.
Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist, sailed from Europe to New York in a zero-emissions sailboat. There she addressed the world leaders with a head-hitting speech at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York.
As the event ended she was all set to travel to her next destination to attend COP25, which was going to held in Chile. This is going to the most important summit this year on the issue of climate change. As she was sailing to Chile from North America she came to know that the venue has been changed for the summit and now it is going to happen in Madrid. The change in the venue has come as a result of riots and protests in the Chilean capital, Santiago.
Even as she was running out of time to reach the destination, she refused to travel via airplane and decided to sail. The reason that she doesn’t want to fly is that the airplanes release heavy carbon gases. A single round-trip flight between New York and California generates nearly 20% of the greenhouse gases which your car emits in a whole year.
The change in the location left her on the wrong side of the ocean. But it seems like the god was on her side and on Tuesday she informed that she has finally found a last-minute ride with an Australian couple, their 11-month-old son, and a professional sailor.
“So happy to say I’ll hopefully make it to COP25 in Madrid,”
the activist tweeted with a photo.
The trip will take around 3 weeks and if things will go as planned Greta will reach in time for the COP25 summit that will start on 2nd December.
Even with the time crunch, she refused to take an airplane and decided to sail.
“I decided to sail to highlight the fact that you can’t live sustainably in today’s society. You have to go to the extreme,”
she said.
When the girl asked for help after the change in the venue, Riley Whitelum replied on Twitter,
“If you get in contact with me I’m sure we could organize something.”
Whitelum and his wife, Elayna Carausu, have been sailing the world and making YouTube videos of their adventures since 2014.
And within a week, they arranged voyage for Greta in their 48-foot catamaran, “La Vagabonde.”
She will be joined by a professional sailor, couple’s son, and her father.
