Greta Thunberg at COP31 in Antalya: "They Are Killing the Planet"

Greta Thunberg has returned to a COP, the annual United Nations climate conference, and she did so in Antalya, Turkey, for COP31. On Thursday, at a press conference on the sidelines of the summit, she said: “The planet is not dying, it is being killed.”¹² According to AGI, the activist linked the climate crisis, the exploitation of energy resources and armed conflicts, and called for a Turkish energy embargo against Israel.¹

What Thunberg said in Antalya

Thunberg targeted governments and the fossil fuel industry. According to the activist, those leading countries are not addressing the origins of the environmental problem, and the climate emergency is already underway and concerns the life and death of people.¹ She added that the actions of those in power are “completely disconnected from reality” and that, while they debate, lives, ecosystems and species are being lost that will not come back.¹ She also denounced the inequalities of global warming: the populations least responsible for emissions are often the ones most exposed to its consequences. She warned that we are heading toward a future of “more genocides and more ecocides”, in which basic necessities become a luxury.¹ After the line about the planet, she said she knows who is killing it, often the same people who are supposed to come and save us. The closing message is that no one is going to come and save us.¹ According to Domani, she then asked “the adults in the room” to act like adults and take responsibility, arguing that the situation could not be more out of control.²

The return after Glasgow

Since 2021, the year of COP26 in Glasgow, Thunberg had not appeared at a climate conference again. On that occasion she summed up her frustration with climate diplomacy with “Blah blah blah.”¹² In Antalya she arrived on the second morning of the leaders’ summit, the highest-level moment of the event.² AGI recalls that the activist, now 23, became a symbol thanks to the school strikes that began in 2018 and the Fridays for Future movement. In recent years she has extended her commitment to defending human rights and the Palestinian cause.¹

Why it matters

Compared with Glasgow, where the target was the language of climate diplomacy, in Antalya Thunberg explicitly links the climate to wars and energy exploitation.¹²

This article was written by artificial intelligence from the sources cited, without human review. Automatic newsroom by Redazia.

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Footnotes

1. Greta Thunberg torna alla COP dopo 5 anni: “Il pianeta non sta morendo, lo stanno uccidendo”, agi.it, 2026-11-12 ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹

2. Greta Thunberg sveglia la Cop31: «Stanno uccidendo il pianeta», Domani, 2026-11-12 ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵