Highly touted UN climate summit failed to deliver — and Scott Morrison failed to show up
- ruby457
- Sep 25, 2019
- 1 min read
Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg had an angry message for world leaders at the United Nations climate summit in New York overnight.
"You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And yet I'm one of the lucky ones," she said.
"People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you?"
The summit was touted as a chance for the world to finally get its climate action on track.
There was a handful of positive stories. Almost 80 countries and more than 100 cities promised to achieve net zero greenhouse emissions by 2050.
Some (mainly developing) nations pledged an end to coal use. And a few developed nations committed more money to the Green Climate Fund, which helps poor nations deal with climate change.
But for the most part, the urgent action needed to avert a global warming catastrophe looked a long way off.
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