At UN, youth activists press for bold action on climate emergency, vow to hold leaders accountable at the ballot box
This first-ever UN Youth Climate Summit follows Friday’s global climate strike, which saw millions of young people from across the globe walk out of school and jam streets in major cities, from New York to New Delhi and Santiago to San Francisco, waving protest signs with slogans like: “Every disaster movie starts with a scientist being ignored”; and “I’m ditching school because you’re ditching the planet.” The Summit, aiming to be different from the usual speaker-by-speaker UN meeting, took the form of a series of lively discussions and Q & A sessions, led by moderators and young people in sneakers rather than UN representatives.
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| Format: | Press release biblioteca |
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| Language: | eng |
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2019-09
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10855/43987 |
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