Greta Thunberg expected this afternoon in New York

" Earth! The lights of Long Island and New York in front of us, "tweeted the young Swedish girl of 16 early Wednesday morning.

According to a spokesman, the crew had to dock near the World Trade Center, around 14.15 local and give a brief press conference.

Greta Thunberg, the originator of a global climate movement, left on 14 August with her father aboard a carbon-neutral racing yacht, the Malizia II, skippered by Pierre Casiraghi, son of the princess Caroline de Monaco, and German Boris Herrmann, to attend the World Climate Summit organized by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in New York in September.

She refused to fly there because of the carbon emissions that this transportation generates.

Pierre Casiraghi provided a free boat to cover the 3,000 nautical miles (about 5,550 kilometers) separating the British coasts from the United States.

At the start of the school year 2018, then in the last class of college, Greta Thunberg had decided to skip school every Friday and settle in front of the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm to sensitize the deputies to the climate emergency.

Its action, quickly relayed by the social networks and the media, inspired thousands of young people around the world and gave birth to the movement "Fridays for future".

Before the UN summit on September 23, the young woman, who took a sabbatical year, will attend many meetings on the climate. She also plans to travel to Canada, Mexico and Chile for another UN conference in December.