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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg will be skipping Egypt’s COP27 conference in November, dubbing the conference “a scam.” “I’m not going to COP27 for many reasons, but the space for civil society this year is extremely limited,” she said at her book launch in London’s Southbank Centre on 30 October. She critiqued the global summit as a platform for “greenwashing,” despite having attended 2021’s COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland. “The COPs are mainly used as an opportunity for leaders and people…