The arrival of a sailboat from Greta Thunberg to New York delayed by the weather

The zero-carbon sailboat carrying Greta Thunberg, the young face of the fight against climate change expected Tuesday in New York, should finally dock Wednesday or Thursday because of weather conditions, according to his entourage.

"The arrival is expected tomorrow Wednesday or Thursday, it still depends on the wind," said Tuesday to AFP one of his relatives.

Monday, the teenager had written on Twitter that the boat on which it crosses the Atlantic should dock Tuesday in New York.

"A rough sea south of Nova Scotia. But conditions near New York will be slower than expected, "she later wrote.

The 16-year-old Swedish teenager, behind a global climate movement, left on August 14 with her father aboard a zero-carbon racing yacht, the Malizia II, driven by Pierre Casiraghi, son of Princess Caroline of 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 separating the British coasts of 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".

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

"She feels good and looks forward to the strikes and climate-related events in North and South America," her entourage said Tuesday.

See his posts on Instagram.