安塔利亚：瑞典气候活动人士格蕾塔·通贝里周二（11月10日）抵达土耳其参加COP31大会时，批评联合国年度气候峰会是“漂绿的马戏团”。通贝里的许多气候活动人士同行已对这一进程不抱幻想，近年来该进程鲜有重大突破，化石燃料生产国常常拖延会议进程和减排行动。
ANTALYA: Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg on Tuesday (Nov 10) criticised the UN's annual climate summits as "greenwashed circuses", as she arrived in Türkiye for the COP31 conference Many of Thunberg's fellow climate activists have become disillusioned with a process which has yielded few major breakthroughs in recent years, with fossil fuel-producing nations often holding up proceedings and action on cutting emissions.
“COP大会已经变成漂绿的马戏团。这就是现实，”通贝里对前来迎接她抵达的记者和人群说。她自2021年格拉斯哥大会以来一直未参加气候大会。
"COPs have become greenwashed circuses. That is the reality," Thunberg, who had not taken part in the climate conferences since Glasgow in 2021, told the press and throng who had gathered for her arrival.
“当然，我们仍然竭尽所能绝对至关重要，因为这是一个动员人们的机会，”她迟抵安塔利亚会谈现场后说。
"Of course it is absolutely crucial that we still do everything we possibly can because this is an opportunity to mobilise people," she said after arriving late to the talks in Antalya.
“我们作为活动人士来到这里，是为了推动那些掌权者真正落实他们几十年来一直在谈论的事情，”她补充说。
"We are here as activists to push those people in power to actually implement what they have been talking about for decades and decades," she added.
“我们最近看到的气候灾难，正是科学家和生活在第一线的人们几十年来一直警告的事情。”
"The climate disasters that we have seen recently (are) something that scientists and people living on the front lines have been warning about for decades."
“我们还必须承认，COP大会不足以防止气候灾难。”通贝里还抨击了大会主办国的选择。
"And we also need to acknowledge that the COPs are not sufficient to prevent a climate catastrophe." Thunberg also took aim at the choice of host for the conference.
“我们不能对主办国（土耳其）侵犯许多基本人权的事实视而不见，”她说。
"We cannot be blind to the fact that the host country, (Türkiye), is violating many basic human rights," she said.
观察人士预计COP31不会有多少重大进展，因为各国正应对油价冲击，以及美国与伊朗的战争和俄罗斯在乌克兰的冲突所加剧的地缘政治紧张。
Observers expect few significant developments from COP31 as countries grapple with an oil price shock and geopolitical tensions fuelled by the US war with Iran and Russia's conflict in Ukraine.