These reporters tried to goad Greta Thunberg. She wasn’t having any of it.

Greta Thunberg has hit reporters with a dose of her signature sarcasm, laughing off mocking questions on her activism.

After a go to to the World Financial Discussion board in Davos, the 20 12 months previous activist walked across the outskirts of the Swiss ski resort.

She was surrounded by a crowd of journalists, a number of of whom posed jeering questions.

One reporter mentioned: "It has been fairly chilly in Davos, when can I count on some international warming?"

One other requested: "Who was filming your arrest in Germany? As a result of it appeared such as you did that in a number of takes, did not you?"

The reported from Insurgent Information was referring to Thunberg's detention alongside different activists on Tuesday throughout protests in opposition to the demolition of a village to make method for a coal mine enlargement. She was launched after an id verify, in accordance with police.

Thunberg answered with fun. "It's extremely seemingly that the German police and [mine owner] RWE fossil gas firm would stage arrests," she mentioned sarcastically.

What has Greta Thunberg mentioned in regards to the WEF?

The World Financial Discussion board (WEF) - a global organisation of private and non-private entities - meets yearly in Davos, Switzerland.

The world’s elite descend on the small alpine city to debate international points and potential options.

However Thunberg expressed pessimism in regards to the WEF's function in local weather motion.

"It has not led us anyplace particularly good, has it?" she mentioned.

"These are the people who find themselves in cost, the individuals who personal the wealth, who're investing in fossil fuels. And but, they're those we count on to resolve the local weather disaster when it’s people who find themselves affected by it that we must be listening to".

Talking at a Davos assembly, Thunberg urged Worldwide Vitality Company Govt Director Fatih Birol to cease the worldwide vitality business and the financiers who assist them from fuelling carbon investments.

Thunberg has joined with different activists to current a "stop and desist" letter to CEOs, calling on them to cease opening new oil, gasoline and coal extraction websites.

"So long as they'll get away with it they'll proceed to spend money on fossil fuels, they'll proceed to throw individuals underneath the bus," she warned.