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As world leaders prepare to meet in New York for a UN Climate Summit next week, millions of young people all over the world are skipping school on Friday to demand faster action against climate change.
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The global climate strike kicked off in the Pacific islands – some of the nations most threatened by rising sea levels – and followed the rising sun through Australia, Japan, Southeast Asia and into Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
Protests, inspired by the 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg who will be attending the conference, are taking place in some 150 countries.
“Soon the sun will rise on Friday the 20th of September 2019. Good luck Australia, The Philippines, Japan and all the Pacific Islands. You go first!” Thunberg posted on Instagram on Thursday.
“The planet is getting hotter than my imaginary boyfriend,” read a poster held by a teenager in Thailand.
In Australia, placards read: “We’ll go to school when the earth is cool” and “No beer on a dead planet”.
Protests are also taking place in European capitals including London, Paris, and Berlin.
“Our future on your shoulders,” read one banner in the German capital as crowds gathered at the Brandenburg Gate.
“A lot of people support our movement but we want to go a step further because politicians decide on our future,” said Janik Oswald, a German spokesman for Fridays For Future, the school strike movement started by Thunberg in Sweden last year.
“We urgently demand that something happens.”
The group said 1.4 million people took to the streets of Germany this Friday.
In Hamburg alone, Thunberg said over 50,000 young people took part in the march.
“We are skipping our lessons to teach you one,” read a placard carried by a student in London.
Thunberg has galvanised young people around the world since she started protesting alone with a sign outside the Swedish parliament building in August 2018. Over the past year, young people in other communities have staged scattered strikes in solidarity with her Fridays for Future movement.
Organisers on Friday are holding coordinated strikes around the world for a third time, with Thunberg spearheading a march and rally in New York, where the United Nations headquarters are located.
In a show of solidarity, New York City education officials will excuse students who want to participate in the march.
Next week’s summit will bring together world leaders to discuss climate change mitigation strategies, such as transitioning to renewable energy sources from fossil fuels.
Global warming caused by heat-trapping greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels has already led to droughts and heatwaves, melting glaciers, rising sea levels, and floods, scientists say.
Carbon emissions climbed a record high last year, despite a warning from the U.N.-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in October that output of the gases must be slashed over the next 12 years to stabilise the climate.
