reta is Time magazine''s Person of Year

Greta is Time magazine’s Person of Year

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Madrid, December 11

Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg was named named Time magazine’s Person of the Year for 2019 on Wednesday.

At a UN summit held here today, she accused world political and business leaders of being more concerned with their own image than taking aggressive action in the fight against climate change.

Delegates in Madrid are wrangling over how to implement a 2015 agreement in Paris to avert potentially catastrophic global warming – but the 16-year-old Swede admonished their approach.

“It seems to have turned into some kind of opportunity for countries to negotiate loopholes and to avoid raising their ambition,” she said on stage, drawing applause from an audience that included dozens of her supporters. “I’m sure that if people heard what was going on and what was said … during these meetings, they would be outraged,” added Thunberg, . Major polluting countries like China, India and the US – which is leaving the Paris deal — are not expected to make big new announcements at the summit, though UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres exhorted them to increase ambition. — Reuters