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Greta Thunberg Is Back and Telling Merkel to Declare Climate Emergency

Activists deliver letter to Merkel with 125,000 signatures
Friday for future announce climate strike for Sept. 25

Greta Thunberg speaks during a news conference on the roof of the House of World Cultures in Berlin, on Aug. 20.
Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg

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By Raymond Colitt and Brian Parkin

August 20, 2020 at 12:06 PM UTC

Updated on

August 20, 2020 at 2:22 PM UTC

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Angela Merkel and other political leaders must treat climate-related issues as an emergency, activist Greta Thunberg said on Thursday after meeting the German chancellor in Berlin.

Thunberg, who along with other activists delivered Merkel a letter with 125,000 signatures calling on leaders to do more to cut emissions, said people should “step put of their comfort zones” and be brave enough to tackle the problem.