Students stage global strikes to pressure U.N. climate summit

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Source: Reuters

LISBON/SYDNEY (Reuters) - Thousands of people in Asia and Europe joined rallies demanding more action on climate change on Friday, aiming to force political leaders to come up with urgent solutions at a United Nations conference next week.

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg had been due to join a student strike in Lisbon, but her environmentally friendly voyage across the Atlantic from New York by yacht was hit by high winds, delaying her by a few days, she told social media followers.

Portugal’s student movement still expected thousands to join marches on Friday, building on the famous campaigner’s imminent arrival to mobilize ahead of the United Nations climate summit in Madrid from Dec. 2-13.

“We wish she’d been here, but the movement has to carry on without her. We’ve got to send our message and pressure politicians ahead of the climate summit,” Marianna Louca, 14, told Reuters in Lisbon.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-strike/students-stage-global-strikes-to-pressure-u-n-climate-summit-idUSKBN1Y308N

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1. Good for Lisbon's activists. Greta will arrive in time for the climate mtg.

in Madrid (Dec. 2-13) it appears based on their current location noted on the La Vagabonde sailboat website.
Climate activists are still rallying around the world and 'Fridays For Future' are still on.

-- DW, "Berlin climate protesters brave icy weather and waters," Nov. 29, 2019. Thousands of protesters have marched through the German capital in solidarity with the latest global climate strike. Demonstrators of all ages called on the German government to improve its climate policy.
Even the biting chill of Berlin's already wintery fall weather wasn't enough to hold protesters back on Friday as they took to the streets in their thousands to demand more action against climate change. One group of students even plunged into the icy waters of the Spree River, holding up a white box in a symbolic attempt to rescue the government's climate-change package.

The latest global climate strike comes just three days ahead of the COP25 Climate Change Conference in Madrid. People were set to march in 2,400 cities across 157 countries..Also very obviously present was the Fridays for Future Movement, inspired by Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg. The German branch of the movement is behind thousands of German schoolchildren not going to lessons every Friday for almost a year...
https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-climate-protesters-brave-icy-weather-and-waters/a-51463670



- Climate activists protest in Berlin, Germany today.

'We See No Other Options': Youth Activists Lead Global #Climate Strike Ahead Of COP 25,"
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/11/29/we-see-no-other-options-youth-activists-lead-global-climatestrike-ahead-cop-25



Rome, Italy: thousands of students participated in the global climate strike Friday, Nov. 29, 2019.