Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old climate activist
who inspired the global youth climate movement Fridays for Future,
left her home country of Sweden on Saturday morning to travel to
Switzerland, the US and Chile.
"On the morning train to New York and Santiago de Chile," Thunberg
posted on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, along with a picture of
her standing next to a train in Sweden.
Before she crosses the Atlantic on the Malizia II racing yacht,
Thunberg will first travel to Lausanne in Switzerland to meet with
young climate activists from dozens of countries at a Fridays for
Future summit.
After the week-long summit, she is set to travel to Great Britain,
were she will join German sailor Boris Herrmann and Pierre Casiraghi
of Monaco aboard their emissions-free yacht.
In the US, she plans to attend the UN Climate Action Summit in New
York on September 23, on the sidelines of the UN's annual General
Assembly meeting, as well as climate protests planned for September
20 and 27.
In Chile, she will be joining the annual UN climate change conference
in December. In between the two events she plans to visit Canada and
Mexico.
According to sources close to Thunberg, she will be accompanied by
her father and a film maker.
The trip across the Atlantic is said to take about two weeks. The
exact start date is still unclear, as it will depend on the weather.
Greta Thunberg