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Climate activist Greta Thunberg on Friday slammed British Prime Minister Boris Johnson for using a jet during his hosting of the COP26 summit in Glasgow and called world leaders' behaviour "hypocritical".
Thunberg was holding her first School Strike for the Climate in Stockholm since the close of the Glasgow summit last weekend, which the 18-year-old Swede termed "a failure".
"Of course, the climate crisis isn't caused by private jets but it is a bit hypocritical ... that world leaders (who) live very close by, for instance, Boris Johnson, arrived in Glasgow by private jet while trying to solve the climate crisis," Thunberg told AFP.
"That doesn't send the right message," said the 18-year-old who travelled by train from Stockholm to the conference aimed at limiting global temperature rises to less than 1.5C.
Johnson flew in and out of the conference aboard a chartered Airbus plane.
He jetted into the conference from Rome where he was attending a G20 meeting. Critics have noted that he also flew home to London, rather than take a four and a half-hour train ride from Glasgow.
Johnson later returned to the conference by train.
