Thunberg to skip COP26

Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg yesterday said she plans to skip the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow this November, saying the uneven rollout of Covid-19 vaccine campaigns would mean countries could not participate on even terms. The 18-year-old activist deplored that by November richer countries would be vaccinating young healthy people "very often at the expense of people in risk groups in other parts of the world." "With the extremely inequitable vaccine distribution I will not attend the COP26 conference if the development continues as it is now," Thunberg told AFP in an interview. Thunberg, confirming a BBC report, said the conference should be postponed "if everyone could not attend in the same terms."