Greta Thunberg found a last-minute ride back across the Atlantic thanks to a pair of YouTubers after a crucial UN climate-change summit got moved from Chile to Spain

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• Greta Thunberg is setting sail back across the Atlantic with an impromptu motley crew: two YouTuber Australians, their 11-month-old son, and a professional sailor.
• The Australian couple answered Thunberg's call for help getting back to Europe after the year's most important UN climate-change summit, COP25, was moved from Chile to Spain.
• It will take about three weeks to sail to Spain in the couple's 48-foot catamaran called "La Vagabonde." Thunberg should arrive just in time for COP25.
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Greta Thunberg is hitching an impromptu boat ride back to Europe.

The 16-year-old Swedish climate activist refuses to fly, because airplane travel has such a heavy carbon footprint — a single round-trip flight between New York and California generates roughly 20% of the greenhouse gases your car emits in a year. In Europe, this means she typically travels by train. 

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