'How dare you': Greta Thunberg blasts world leaders for 'failing' on climate change

Madeleine Cuff
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Swedish teenage activist delivers angry and emotional speech to world leaders at UN Climate Action Summit, as emissions pledges start to stack up

"We will not let you get away with this." That was Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg's message to world leaders gathered at the UN's headquarters in New York for today's flagship Climate Action...

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