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Thunberg labels COP26 a 'greenwash festival' as youth demand action

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Closing a mass climate protest in Glasgow, Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg says that pledges from some nations made during COP26 to accelerate their emissions cuts amounted to little more than "a two-week long celebration of business as usual and 'blah, blah, blah'".

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