Young climate activist Greta Thunberg arrived in Madrid today to join thousands of other young people in a march demanding action from world leaders to combat climate change.
Passing through numerous cameras and microphones at a train station in Madrid, the Swedish teenager wrote in a Twitter message: "I successfully managed to sneak into Madrid, I don't think anyone saw me. Anyway, it's great to be in Spain".
A two-week UN climate conference is underway in Madrid, aimed at harmonizing rules on the global carbon market and agreeing on how to compensate poor countries for the destruction caused mainly by harmful emissions from rich countries.
Thunberg later made an unannounced visit to the venue of the conference and joined a group of around 40 teenagers protesting for real action against climate change.
They held hands and sang "Power to the people" and carried signs with the logo of the "Friday for Future" movement, the global climate movement that Thunberg inspired.
The climate talks are taking place at a time when scientific evidence is mounting about the catastrophes that could result from further global warming.
Thunberg arrived by train from Lisbon, where she arrived earlier this week on a catamaran across the Atlantic Ocean from the US.
She had to do this after the COP25 climate conference in Chile was suddenly canceled due to unrest in that country and moved to Madrid.
Separately today, an alliance of US states, cities, academic institutions and companies opened their own seat at the UN climate talks in an effort to show that despite the federal administration's decision to pull the US out of the Paris climate accord, many Americans remain committed to the pact's goal of curbing global warming. warming up.
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