NEWS CENTER— The Turkish city of Antalya is hosting the 2026 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP31), where world leaders and environmental experts are gathering to confront climate change, enhance sustainability efforts, and formulate decisive international policies to protect the planet.

Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg criticized the working mechanism of UN climate summits, describing them as nothing but a "circus wrapped in fake green marketing" and ineffective in confronting the environmental crisis, during her participation in the 31st Conference of the Parties (COP31) held in the Turkish city of Antalya.

In her first participation in UN climate conferences since 2021, Greta Thunberg stressed the need to turn previous promises into tangible steps, and also opened fire on the human rights record of the host country, pointing out that the struggle for climate cannot be separated from the protection of human rights. "We cannot turn a blind eye to the fact that the host country violates many basic human rights."

She explained that the primary goal of activists is to push decision-makers toward actual action. "Our presence here as activists aims to pressure the ruling powers to implement the commitments they have pledged over decades. The environmental disasters we are witnessing today are nothing but the product of ignoring the warnings of scientists and the most affected communities that were launched generations ago. We must clearly realize that climate summits alone will not be enough to avert the imminent climate catastrophe."