Artist and activist Ai Weiwei has cautioned against seeing COP26 as the answer to the world's climate problems, insisting 'we cannot depend on one meeting'
Artist and activist Ai Weiwei has said everyone needs to take a stand against climate change. Pic: Circa/ Sky NewsArtist and activist Ai Weiwei has cautioned against seeing COP26 as the answer to the world's climate problems, insisting"we cannot depend on one meeting".Speaking about the, which begins on Sunday in Glasgow, the leading Chinese dissident said it"probably is too late and most likely nothing will change... we cannot depend on one meeting".
His life in China became increasingly difficult after he spoke out against the Chinese government and he left his home country in 2015.However, the artist defends how China's greenhouse emissions have come to exceed all developed nations - saying that China's 1.4 billion people per capita produce less greenhouse emissions than the US.
"I think what we have to understand is what China did, every nation did before... so to use one standard to measure certain areas is very colonial and very discriminating," he said.
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