UPDATE: Aug 27, 2:00 pm EST
Greta Thunberg to arrive in NYC Wednesday or Thursday after yacht hits bad weather - CNN
On Sunday, Thunberg had said on Twitter that the vessel, the Malizia II, was due to dock in the city on Tuesday.
But in an update late on Monday, she said that weather would delay its arrival.
“Day 13. Rough seas south of Nova Scotia,” wrote Thunberg in a tweet.
“But conditions closer to New York will be slower than predicted and weather update suggests Wednesday arrival - an updated ETA will come as we near the coast.”
(AFP Stockholm, Sweden Aug 27, 2019)
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg said she expects to arrive in New York on Tuesday, completing her zero-carbon Atlantic crossing on a yacht.
The Malizia II racing yacht — skippered by Pierre Casiraghi, the son of Monaco’s Princess Caroline, and German round-the-world sailor Boris Herrmann — left Plymouth in southern England on August 14 for a two-week voyage in order to enable the Swedish teen to attend a UN summit on zero emissions in September in New York.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres is calling on all leaders to come to New York on 23 September with concrete, realistic plans to enhance their nationally determined contributions by 2020, in line with reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 45 per cent over the next decade, and to net zero emissions by 2050.
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The 16-year-old, whose school strikes have inspired children across the world to protest against global warming, refuses to fly because of the carbon emissions caused by planes.
On Monday, the sailboat was nearing the US coast with strong downwinds.
“Strong winds are pushing us west. We expect to arrive at North Cove Marina in Manhattan, New York sometime Tuesday afternoon or evening,” Thunberg wrote on Twitter.
Strong winds are pushing us west. We expect to arrive at North Cove Marina in Manhattan, New York sometime Tuesday afternoon or evening. pic.twitter.com/kQ4zBXPrhJ
— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) August 25, 2019
In a video post published late Sunday, she said the boat was travelling at “between 20 and 25 knots” and it was “very rough, and very high waves.”
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The teen marked the first anniversary of the start of her school strike on August 20.
She began sitting outside the Swedish parliament in August 2018 to raise the awareness of members of parliament to the urgency of climate change.
She was swiftly joined by other students around the world, as word of her strike spread through the media, and the “Fridays for future” movement was born.
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“I don’t care about being popular. I care about climate justice and the living planet.” 16-year-old Greta Thunberg is the driving force behind movement that has seen more than 2M teens around the world take part in school strikes against climate change.
The 18-metre yacht features state-of-the-art solar panels on its deck and sides while there are two hydro-generators which together provide all the electricity needed on board.
Her voyage has however sparked controversy after a spokesman for Herrmann, the yacht’s co-skipper, told Berlin newspaper TAZ that several people would fly into New York to help take the yacht back to Europe. Hermann himself will also return by plane, according to the spokesman.
Team Malizia’s manager insisted however that the young activist’s journey would be climate neutral, as the flights would “be offset.”
Thunberg has meanwhile said that she doesn’t yet know how she will return to Europe when the time comes.