Greta Thunberg to participate in Edinburgh International Book Festival occasion

Climate activist Greta Thunberg will participate in a particular occasion at this 12 months’s Edinburgh International Book Festival.

The 20-year-old Swedish environmental campaigner will give a speech, adopted by an in-depth dialog about her activism.

She will even focus on her e-book, The Climate Book, which noticed her name on the knowledge of greater than 100 specialists, from Indigenous leaders and famend scientists to activists and folks from all over the world who’re most affected by local weather change.

The occasion – It’s Not Too Late To Change The World – will happen on the Edinburgh Playhouse on Sunday 13 August and shall be chaired by author and broadcaster Gemma Cairney.

It shall be Ms Thunberg’s first public look in Scotland since her go to to Glasgow for COP26 in November 2021.

Ms Thunberg, who impressed a worldwide youth local weather strike motion together with her one-person college protest beginning in 2018, was not invited to formally deal with the UN local weather change convention however took half in a rally demanding motion to deal with the disaster.

Nick Barley, director of the e-book pageant, mentioned: “Nobody speaks truth to power quite like Greta Thunberg: her words and actions have given hope to countless young activists.

“This is a uncommon alternative to spend time within the presence of a younger lady whose conviction and defiant vitality is a supply of inspiration to hundreds of thousands throughout the globe.”

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It’s Not Too Late To Change The World shall be a part of a climate-focused strand of occasions on the e-book pageant, which is offered in affiliation with the Edinburgh International Festival.

Three hundred tickets to the occasion that includes Ms Thunberg shall be made accessible to local people teams and younger folks, and a particular half-price ticket shall be supplied to these aged underneath 26 to encourage them to grow to be a part of the local weather dialog.

Edinburgh Festival director, musician Nicola Benedetti, mentioned: “We are deeply grateful to Greta Thunberg for joining us as she is one of the most prominent environmental activists of our time and is uniquely positioned to address the underlying question of this year’s international festival programme, ‘Where do we go from here?’.

“Greta has helped to galvanise a worldwide motion for local weather motion, and we’re proud to characteristic her as a part of the Edinburgh International Festival.”

Edinburgh International Book Festival will happen between 12-28 August. Tickets for Ms Thunberg’s occasion will go on sale on-line at 12pm on Wednesday 7 June.