Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg is expected to arrive in Lisbon “at the beginning of December” after sailing across the Atlantic on her way to the Madrid Climate Change Summit.
“We had to slow down to avoid very bad weather ahead, but now we're back on track at top speed. I hope we get to Lisbon, Portugal, early December,” wrote Greta Thunberg on social media.
The environmentalist set sail on a catamaran on the 13th of November from the United States’ Salt Ponds Port in Virginia, as she does not travel by plane to avoid the pollution it entails.
Once she arrives in Lisbon Greta has invited to attend a session at the Assembly of the Republic promoted by the Parliamentary Committee on Environment, Energy and Spatial Planning, which will take place between the end of this month and the beginning of December.
According to the president of the Environment Committee, José Maria Cardoso, the president of the Environment Committee, “there was receptivity" from representatives of the activist to the invitation made by the MPs.
Greta Thunberg travelled in August from the United Kingdom to New York on an ecological sailboat belonging to Pierre Casiraghi, the youngest son of Carolina of Monaco, a member of Monaco’s royal family, to attend the United Nations Climate Change Summit in September.
The activist, who took a sabbatical year, intended to travel across the Americas by land to Chile, where the United Nations Conference on Climate Change was initially scheduled.
The Chilean government, however, cancelled the event due to the evident social protests that have been rocking the South American country for weeks.
She rose to fame for beginning a school strike on her own in September 2018 in front of the Swedish parliament to call for action against climate change, which has since inspired a global movement that led to her being welcomed by world leaders and speaking at international conferences.
