23 hours agoShareSaveHugh CasswellEast Midlands environment correspondentShareSaveShe said she feels “sad and disappointed” at the actions of some world leaders.Ahead of COP30, most countries failed to submit updated plans on how they would cut their emissions of planet-warming gases.”Sometimes it feels like they kind of put those problems on our generation, that it’s not going to be a problem for them,” Ms Szewernoha said.Donald Trump has not attended COP30 and the US government said it would not send any high-level officials.In a speech to the UN in September, the US President called climate change the “greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world”.He also attacked scientific evidence for rising temperatures.The overwhelming majority of scientists and experts agree that climate change is caused by humans, and is real.COP30 officially ends on Friday 21 November.
