Climate activist Greta Thunberg arrives In Armenia, boycotting COP29 In Baku

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg arrived in Armenia on Tuesday after announcing a boycott of the COP29 UN climate summit in Azerbaian.

“Today, with great responsibility and pleasure, I, along with my colleagues, welcomed Swedish eco-activist Greta Thunberg at the Armenian-Georgian border. She has arrived in Armenia, boycotting COP29 being held in Baku. Updates on the upcoming initiatives will be shared soon,” Oleg Dulgaryan, President of the Center for Community Mobilization and Support, said in a post on Facebook.

Prior to her visit to Armenia, Thunberg was in Tbilisi, Georgia, where she organized a protest against Azerbaijan hosting the annual UN climate summit.

Thunberg described Azerbaijan as “a repressive, occupying state, which has committed ethnic cleansing, and which is continuing cracking down on Azerbaijani civil society.” She charged that the country has used the summit as “a chance to greenwash their crimes and human rights abuses.”