Greta Thunberg accuses governments of exploiting loopholes on climate action

Climate activist Greta Thunberg hit out in a video message on Saturday at the “distant, hypothetical targets being set” by governments responding to the climate crisis. Accusing global leaders of using “empty words” as the world was speeding in the wrong generation, she said five years since the Paris Agreement was adopted by 196 countries “the action needed is still nowhere in sight”. Addressing her 10.5 million Instagram followers in advance of the UN climate action summit, she urged them to fight to halt the average rise in world temperatures to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels; the key target of the climate pact. The current rate of global greenhouse gas emissions meant “our...