Cox: How Greta can transition from blah blah blah – Reuters

Cox: How Greta can transition from blah blah blah – Reuters

MILAN, Oct 4 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Greta Thunberg did it again. At the Youth4Climate event in Milan last week, ahead of a meeting of global leaders to chart the course of the COP26 climate summit next month in Scotland, the young Swedish climate activist stole the headlines. In a speech that went viral, she mocked every corporate boss and investor brandishing an ESG PowerPoint, as well as U.S. President Joe Biden and other sloganeering politicians for their lack of action in fighting climate change.

“Build back better. Blah, blah blah. Green economy. Blah, blah, blah. Net zero by 2050. Blah, blah, blah,” she said, with her characteristic deadpan delivery, days before the pre-COP26 summit overseen by Prime Minister Mario Draghi’s government got underway. “This is all we hear from our so-called leaders. Words that sound great but so far have not led to action. Our hopes and ambitions drown in their empty promises.”