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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has accused attendees of the World Economic Forum in Davos of "fuelling the destruction of the planet" as she arrived at the event in the Swiss Alps.
Alongside other climate activists, Greta returns to Davos to press her battle against fossil fuels at the annual forum during a panel that debated how the world can rapidly accelerate the clean energy transition
This comes shortly after she was released from detainment by German police following her arrest whilst protesting the expansion of a coal mine in Germany.
Thunberg, famed for her direct and blunt approach, has
"We are right now in Davos where (there are) basically the people who are mostly fuelling the destruction of the planet," she said, adding: "The people who are at the very core of the climate crisis, the people who are investing in fossil fuels etc, and yet somehow these are the people that we seem to rely on for solving our problems."
She also insisted that we should listen to those actually affected by the climate crisis, those on the frontline.
The 20-year-old Swede made a splash when she attended the forum as a teenager in January 2020, warning
