Greta Thunberg’s address to the UN Climate Change Conference (COP24)

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Greta Thunberg’s address to the UN Climate Change Conference (COP24) is an early landmark speech by the Swedish climate activist in which she sharply criticized global leaders’ inaction on climate change and helped catalyze the international youth climate movement.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf climate change speech
public address
speech
ageOfSpeaker 15
associatedWithMovement Fridays for Future
school strike for climate
youth climate movement
audience climate negotiators
delegates to the United Nations Climate Change Conference
representatives of UN member states
callsFor emissions reductions
keeping fossil fuels in the ground
system change
urgent climate action
country Poland
criticizes economic growth prioritization over climate
political inaction on climate change
world leaders
date 2018-12-12
distributedOnPlatform YouTube
social media
focusesOn government inaction on climate change
intergenerational justice
responsibility of world leaders
format short plenary address
givenAtEvent COP24
COP24
surface form: United Nations Climate Change Conference 2018
givenBy Greta Thunberg
hasNotableQuote We have come here to let you know that change is coming, whether you like it or not.
We have not come here to beg world leaders to care.
You are not mature enough to tell it like it is.
You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words.
hasSignificance early landmark speech in global climate activism
helped catalyze the international youth climate movement
language English
location Katowice
Poland
mainTopic climate change
climate crisis
climate justice
global warming
mediaCoverage international
organizationInvolved United Nations
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
partOf Greta Thunberg’s early international activism
recordedAs video
relatedToAgreement Paris Agreement
speaker Greta Thunberg
year 2018

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