Millions of students and other activists abandoned school and work on Friday to join mass protests calling for action against climate change before a UN summit.
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| Pacific Islanders attend a protest march as part of the world’s largest climate strike in Sydney, Australia. |
From New York to Guatemala City, Sydney to Kabul, and Cape Town to London, protesters in hundreds of cities around the world took the streets, demanding their governments take urgent steps to tackle the climate crisis and prevent an environmental catastrophe.
"The preliminary numbers say there are at least 3 million people in today's #ClimateStrike And that is before counting North and South America," tweet Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teen, who was in New York to lead the climate strike ahead of the UN Climate Action Summit, which is slated to bring together world leaders to discuss climate change mitigation strategies, including the move from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources.
The demonstrations started in the Pacific Islands before quickly getting started across Australia, Asia, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and North and South America.
Read the Aljazeera story - “‘No Planet B': Millions take to streets in global climate strike.”
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