While speaking at the London Literature Festival in October to promote The Climate Book, Thunberg told the audience that she does not plan to attend COP27, scheduled to be in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, from Nov. 6 through Nov. 18, 2022. She accused the international climate change conference of greenwashing, and stated that “the COPs are not really working, unless of course we use them as an opportunity to mobilize,” as per The Guardian.
Thunberg did the same in COP26, though she did trave to Glasgow, Scotland, where the conference was held. But instead of attending, she joined in the Fridays for Future climate strike, which was aimed at COP26 and the world leaders participating in what Thunberg called a “greenwash festival” and a “failure.”
