Sixteen-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg on Wednesday tweeted that she had reached New York City after sailing across the Atlantic Ocean ahead of next month’s United Nations Climate Action Summit.
Thunberg, who does not travel by air due to the associated carbon emissions, set sail from the United Kingdom on August 14 on an emissions-free sailboat.
She has provided regular updates on the two-week voyage.
“Land!! The lights of Long Island and New York City ahead,” Thunberg tweeted early in the morning.
Land!! The lights of Long Island and New York City ahead. pic.twitter.com/OtDyQOWtF5
— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) August 28, 2019
The boat was originally slated to reach New York on Tuesday but choppy conditions south of Nova Scotia, Canada, held things up for a day.
Day 13. Rough seas south of Nova Scotia. But conditions closer to New York will be slower than predicted and weather update suggests Wednesday arrival – an updated ETA will come as we near the coast. pic.twitter.com/IY6L9InSnp
— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) August 26, 2019
The craft, the Malizia II, is powered by solar panels and underwater turbines that produce electricity, according to CNN.
Thunberg, a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, has become one of the world’s most visible climate activists after organizing a series of school strikes to call for action on climate change starting last year.
The U.N. summit is scheduled for Sept. 23.
“The Summit will showcase a leap in collective national political ambition and it will demonstrate massive movements in the real economy in support of the agenda,” the summit’s website states.
“Together, these developments will send strong market and political signals and inject momentum in the “race to the top” among countries, companies, cities and civil society that is needed to achieve the objectives of the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals.”
