Greta Thunberg chose the day that finance chiefs rallied trillions of dollars to deploy in the fight against climate change to make her presence felt at COP26. Thunberg and other activists from Greenpeace and the Indigenous Environmental Network interrupted a panel on carbon offsets to protest about “greenwashing” and the dangers of relying on the credits to compensate for emissions. Her presence drew a crush of people outside the meeting space despite social distancing rules. The Swedish environmentalist sat at the back of the room listening. Half an hour into the panel discussion, she walked out, shouting “no more greenwashing”. Before the panel started on Wednesday she tweeted that fossil fuel companies and banks are trying to “give polluters a free pass to keep polluting.” Offsets are a way for buyers to continue polluting while essentially paying someone else to adopt climate-friendly behaviors. But no global oversight or common […]