Youth activists staged a co-ordinated 'global climate strike' Friday to highlight their fears about the effects of global warming and demand more aid for poor countries hit by wild weather.
Youth activists staged a co-ordinated "global climate strike" Friday to highlight their fears about the effects of global warming and demand more aid for poor countries hit by wild weather.
The demonstrations were organized by the Fridays for Future youth movement that took its cue from activist Greta Thunberg, who began protesting alone outside the Swedish parliament in 2018."We're striking all over the world because the governments in charge are still doing too little for climate justice," said Darya Sotoodeh, a spokesperson for the group's chapter in Germany.
Police said some 20,000 people attended the rally in Berlin, which featured calls for the German government to establish a 100-billion-euro fund for tackling climate change.One placard read: "The climate is changing. Why aren't we?" Students highlighted among their priorities the need to rethink Italy's transport policies. The country's ratio of cars per inhabitant is one of the highest in Europe.
The protests follow warnings from scientists that countries aren't doing enough to meet the 2015 Paris climate accord's top-line target of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius this century compared to preindustrial times.
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