On a Tuesday in Antalya, Turkey, Greta Thunberg stepped into the United Nations climate gathering known as COP31 and offered reporters a verdict in a few words: the warming world is threatening everything people love. Coming after a year marked by scorching heat and disaster, her arrival reminds the long procession of climate summits that the question has always been whose interests are served. She asks that the talks put people and the living planet ahead of profit and power, and that the systems behind those choices be rebuilt rather than patched. Whether that plea will be heard among the ne
Greta Thunberg Joins COP31 in Antalya, Warns 'Everything We Love Is at Stake'
Everything and everyone we love is at stake.
Mark
Thunberg hasn't been at a U.N. climate summit since Glasgow in 2021. Why does her return matter?
Mimi
Because of what she said then. She called leaders' promises "blah, blah, blah." Now she's back, and her message is that the systems themselves need to change.
Mark
She said those systems are "incompatible with human nature." That's a big claim.
Luke
It is, and the report doesn't unpack it. We have her words, not an argument or a list of what she'd change. I'd treat it as her position, not a finding.
Mimi
Fair. But the framing is clear: people and planet over profit and power.
Mark
The report mentions a year of heat waves and disasters. Does it tie them to specific events?
Luke
No. It says the meeting follows a year of climate-induced disasters, but names none and gives no figures. That's context, not evidence we can check here.
Mark
What about her 2024 protest in Georgia?
Mimi
She accused Azerbaijan of using that summit to greenwash its crimes and abuses. It shows she's been critical of the talks' hosts before, not only of leaders' pledges.
Luke
Worth noting that's her accusation. The piece reports it as hers, and so should we.
Mark
And what happens next?
Mimi
She's expected to stay only a few days. Whether anyone in the negotiating rooms responds to her is still unknown.
Der Puls
- Thunberg arrived at COP31 in Antalya declaring that climate change is threatening everything people love, and the warning landed before the talks had even settled into their agenda.
- A year of heat waves and disasters hangs over the gathering, lending urgency to every word spoken in the halls.
- She accuses leaders of sacrificing the global majority and the planet so a fortunate few can keep profiting and holding geopolitical power, pressing a sharp moral line into the negotiations.
- Her call for structural change to political and economic systems pushes past single policies toward the foundations of the crisis.
- She is expected to stay only a few days, so her demands must register quickly if they are to shape the debate at all.
On a Tuesday in Antalya, Turkey, Greta Thunberg stepped into the United Nations climate gathering known as COP31 and offered reporters a verdict in a few words: the warming world is threatening everything people love. Coming after a year marked by scorching heat and disaster, her arrival reminds the long procession of climate summits that the question has always been whose interests are served. She asks that the talks put people and the living planet ahead of profit and power, and that the systems behind those choices be rebuilt rather than patched. Whether that plea will be heard among the negotiators is a question the first hours cannot yet answer.
Greta Thunberg walked into the venue of the United Nations climate meeting in Antalya, Turkey, on Tuesday and told waiting reporters that climate change is "threatening everything." Everything and everyone people love is at stake, she said.
The gathering, known as COP31, opens after a year of heat waves and other disasters linked to a changing climate. That backdrop framed her arrival.
Her message was about priorities. Action should protect and benefit people, she said, rather than keep sacrificing the global majority and the planet so a fortunate few can make unimaginable profits and hold geopolitical power. The problem also runs deeper than any single policy: current political and economic systems, she argued, have become incompatible with human nature, and structural change is needed across the world.
Her visit carries history. It is her first U.N. climate summit since the 2021 COP in Glasgow, where she dismissed global leaders' promises as "blah, blah, blah," and she has stayed active on the climate-talks circuit since, including a 2024 rally in Georgia against Azerbaijan hosting that year's talks.
She is expected to stay only a few days. Whether her call finds an echo among negotiators remains unclear. What is clear is that she came, spoke plainly, and framed the stakes in terms of people rather than targets.
Greta Thunberg walked into the venue of the United Nations climate meeting in Antalya, Turkey, on Tuesday and told waiting reporters that climate change is "threatening everything." She added that everything and everyone people love is at stake.
The meeting is the Conference of the Parties, known as COP31. It opens after a year of heat waves and other disasters linked to a changing climate, which is the backdrop Thunberg spoke against when she arrived.
Her message to reporters was about priorities. Action, she said, should protect and benefit people, rather than continuing to sacrifice the global majority and the planet itself so that a fortunate few can keep making unimaginable profits and holding on to geopolitical power. She stressed the need to put people and the planet ahead of profit and power.
She also argued that the problem runs deeper than any single policy. Structural changes are needed across the world, she said, because current political and economic systems have become incompatible with human nature.
The visit carries some history. This is Thunberg's first U.N. climate summit since the 2021 COP in Glasgow, Scotland, where she dismissed the promises of global leaders as "blah, blah, blah." She has not been absent from the climate-talks circuit since. In 2024 she took part in a protest rally in Georgia against Azerbaijan hosting that year's climate talks, accusing the Azerbaijani government of using the summit to greenwash its crimes and human rights abuses.
Thunberg is expected to stay at this year's talks for only a few days. Whether her call for changes to political and economic systems finds any echo among negotiators is not something the reporting from her arrival can answer. What it does establish is that she came to Antalya, spoke plainly, and framed the stakes in terms of people rather than targets.
Bemerkenswerte Zitate
We should act to protect and benefit people rather than constantly sacrificing the global majority and the very planet we are all living on, for a fortunate few to keep making unimaginable profits and maintaining geopolitical power.— Greta Thunberg, to reporters in Antalya
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