Climate Strike in Pictures
Global Strike rally started in Sydney before spreading to Delhi, London and Los Angeles.
Millions of people including hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren are taking to the streets in 150 countries yesterday for the largest climate protest in history.
Some four million people filled city streets around the world, organisers said, in what was billed as the biggest ever protest against the threat posed to the planet by rising temperatures.
From New York to London and San Francisco to Sydney, Australia, children stood with other groups taking part in the strikes, including trade unions, environmental advocates and employees at large tech companies such as Amazon and Google. And their demands were similar: reduce the use of fossil fuels to try to halt climate change.
The event was sparked by the Swedish teenage campaigner Greta Thunberg, who began leaving school every Friday in order to protest climate change in a movement that has spread around the world. Thunberg has been nominated for a Nobel prize for her climate activism, will spearhead a rally at the United Nations headquarters in the city later.
In China – the world’s most polluting nation – President Xi’s government has banned the movement from protesting in its cities.
#ClimateStrike in Pictures
Venue: Carmel Polytechnic College, Alappuzha, organized by Friends of Nature
Venue: Markazul Uloom English School, Kondotty-Malappuram, organized by Friends of Nature
#ClimateStrike in World Cities
Image courtesy: dailymail.co.uk
