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Over 200 simultaneous events are set to take place as part of a “Global Day of Action for Climate Justice” on Saturday, November 6, 2021 – with a march through Glasgow expected to attract tens of thousands of people. Swedish environmental activist, Greta Thunberg, is one of the speakers at the rally The organisers of the events, the COP26 Coalition, ...

The United Nations panel on climate change on Monday said global warming was dangerously close to being out of control and humans were “unequivocally” to blame. Greta Thunberg Report from the scientists of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned that greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere were high enough to guarantee climate disruption for decades if not centuries. It ...

Youth climate strikers under the banner of Fridays for Future have called for a Global Day of Climate Action on Friday, September 25, 2020. The climate youth movement was sparked by Swedish teenage environmental activist, Greta Thunberg In response to this call youth leaders, civil society groups and grassroots movements are organising actions across the continent to send a powerful message to ...

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg on Wednesday, September 23, 2020 announced that a foundation she set up would donate €150,000 ($175,000) to assist people affected by climate change in Africa. Greta Thunberg The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, Oil Change International and Solar Sister would each receive €50,000, the Greta Thunberg Foundation said. The statement said that Africa ...

Youth strikers from MAPA countries (Most Affected People and Areas), Mitzi Jonelle Tan (Philippines), Eyal Weintraub (Argentina), Disha A Ravi (India), Kevin Mtai (Kenya), Laura Veronica Muñoz (Colombia), were joined by Greta Thunberg from Sweden to announce a new wave of global climate strikes. Greta Thunberg On September 25, 2020, thousands of climate strikes will take place across the globe ...

Swedish climate activist, Greta Thunberg, on Friday, August 21, 2020 staged her latest climate strike in Berlin, protesting with dozens of other youngsters in front of the German capital’s famous Brandenburg Gate. Greta Thunberg with co-climate strikers at the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin The protesters were seen sitting on the concrete in front of the city landmark, at a distance from ...

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, whose weekly school strikes for the climate sparked a global youth movement, on Thursday, August 20, 2020 met German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin to discuss ways to mitigate climate change. Greta Thunberg Thunberg, 17, was joined by other members of “Fridays for Future”, including Luisa Neubauer, the 24-year-old face of the protest movement’s Germany branch. ...