'What we do in the next 3-4 years, will determine the future of humanity' We are nonviolent Campaign Background: Allowing the extraction of new oil and gas resources in the UK is an obscene and genocidal policy that will kill our generation and condemn humanity to oblivion. It just has to stop. If we continue... Continue Reading →
“We cannot continue to use the sky as an open sewer in a way that is absolutely destroying the future,” Gore said before an audience at the Kennedy Center. . Al Gore is fired up. The environmentalist and former vice president appeared on stage Wednesday evening in Washington, D.C., speaking to young activists from Georgetown... Continue Reading →
Al Gore looks to youth to spark action on climate change
Pope Francis Praises Greta Thunberg and the Youth4Climate Conference
...this is a youth initiative to promote, mobilize and motivate world leaders to take action and implement stricter climate regulations to save the planet.
YOUTH-4-CLIMATE 2021: DRIVING AMBITION
A chance for young people to propose ideas and concrete actions to address climate change. Almost 400 young people aged between 15 and 29 from 186 countries will meet in Milan from 28 – 30 September 2021 to address the main urgencies and priorities of climate action. The ‘Youth4Climate: Driving Ambition’ meeting in Milan is part... Continue Reading →
Young people who feel "hopeless and paralysed" by fears about climate change need help and support, mental health experts have said. Place2Be - a charity offering counselling in schools - said the issue was becoming "more and more prominent". Plaid Cymru said it wanted new guidance for teachers and funding for eco projects focused on... Continue Reading →
Climate change anxiety: Young people ‘feel hopeless’ …
WHO WE ARE Fridays For Future is an international, intersectional movement of students striking for climate. FFF began in August 2018, after 15 year old Greta Thunberg sat in front of the Swedish parliament every school day for three weeks to protest against the lack of action on the climate crisis. Since then, millions of... Continue Reading →
FRIDAYS FOR FUTURE USA
Climate activists march in California to demand action
Around 100 young activists, carrying banners calling for a Green New Deal, marched across San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge demanding more action on climate change. Source... (Thank you Sunrise Movement...)
"The 9th Circuit failed to correct the legal errors in the panel decision," said the lead attorney in the case, who added that the case is now up to the nation's highest court. For the second time in as many years, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday rejected a landmark climate lawsuit... Continue Reading →
After 9th Circuit Decision, Youth Climate Campaigners Vow to Take Landmark Case to Supreme Court
Recent years have seen an onslaught of apocalyptic natural disasters around the world – floods, cyclones, storms, wildfires, and 2020 was deemed the joint hottest year on record. All over the world young people have demanded action against climate change, determined to compel the world to act now to prevent irreversible damage to our environment... Continue Reading →
WaterAid showcases 15 young activists fighting to save our planet
Scores of world leaders gathered in New York on Monday for the U.N. Climate Action Summit, but the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitters announced few new measures to address the climate crisis. President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence briefly attended the summit but left after just 14 minutes. At the beginning of the summit,... Continue Reading →
Youth & Indigenous Activists Take Center Stage at United Nations Climate Action Summit
UN Chief on Climate Change…
In a landmark speech today (10 Sep) United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said, “Climate change is the defining issue of our time – and we are at a defining moment,” adding that “if we do not change course by 2020, we risk missing the point where we can avoid runaway climate change, with disastrous consequences... Continue Reading →