Greta Thunberg to arrive in Portugal after sailing across Atlantic

Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg, who refuses to fly to avoid harming the environment, is scheduled to arrive in Lisbon early Tuesday after sailing across the Atlantic.
 
The mayor of the Portuguese capital, Fernando Medina, is set to greet her, after which she will hold a press conference, The Deutsch Press Agency (dpa) reported.
 
"Our last day on the ocean! We can now almost smell land!" Thunberg tweeted on Monday, day 18 of her journey on the La Vagabonde catamaran.
 
She and her sailing companions expect to arrive at the Doca de Santo Amaro port some time between 8 and 10 am (0700-0900 GMT).
 
This means the star activist, whose "climate strike" outside parliament in Stockholm inspired the global Fridays for Future youth movement, would be able to attend this Friday's demonstration in Madrid, 600 kilometers from Lisbon.
 
The 16-year-old had travelled to America to attend the major COP25 climate summit in Chile, among other events, but the conference was moved to Madrid due to unrest in that country.
 
Thunberg's exact travel plans after docking in Portugal are not yet known.
 
The COP25 summit began on Monday and is set to continue until December 13.
 
This has been Thunberg's second boat trip across the Atlantic within four months. She caught a lift over on a racing yacht captained by German sailor Boris Herrmann and Pierre Casiraghi of Monaco, in a zero-carbon journey that took 15 days. Now she is travelling back with an Australian "influencer" couple with 1.2 million Youtube subscribers.