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Gallery|Climate Crisis

Photos: Young protesters demand climate action worldwide

Demonstrations follow warnings from scientists that nations are not doing enough to halt climate catastrophe.

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Young people take part in a global climate protest march in Omotesando district in Tokyo, Japan on Friday. [Issei Kato/Reuters]
Published On 24 Sep 202224 Sep 2022
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Young activists staged a coordinated “global climate strike” to highlight the effects of global warming and demand more aid for poor countries hit by weather chaos.

Protests from New Zealand and Japan to Germany and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Friday pressed rich nations to pay for the damage their carbon emissions are inflicting on the Global South and elsewhere.

Demonstrators also took to the streets in Jakarta, Tokyo, Rome, Berlin and Montreal carrying banners and posters with slogans such as, “It’s not too late.”

“If Jakarta is flooded, everyone who has money can leave. Where do I go? I will drown here in Jakarta,” one protester, who gave her name as Meta, said in Indonesia’s capital.

About 400 young activists gathered in the DRC’s capital Kinshasa chanting slogans such as “Act for Africa, protect our planet.”

As leaders of developing disaster-struck nations pleaded their cases at the United Nations, about 2,000 protesters marched through the streets of New York City to condemn climate inaction.

Dinah Landsman, 17, said every day she asks herself about what kind of future she will have as she grows older because of climate change. Her generation has to act, she said. “No one else is going to do it. It’s us who have the most at stake.”

The protests follow warnings from scientists that countries are not doing enough to meet the 2015 Paris climate accord’s top-line target of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) this century compared with preindustrial times.

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Environmental activists hold up posters during a protest in Jakarta, Indonesia. [Achmad Ibrahim/AP]
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Demonstrators take part in a protest against climate change in Valparaiso, Chile. [Rodrigo Garrido/Reuters]
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Participants hold placards in a protest in support of action against climate change in Mumbai, India. [Punit Paranjpe/AFP]
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A demonstrator writes a message with chalk during a Fridays For Future climate reparations strike in Mexico City. [Raquel Cunha/Reuters]
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People hold a banner that reads '$100bn for climate instead of crisis' at a protest in Berlin, Germany. [Christian Mang/Reuters]
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Activists lie on the ground during a protest against climate change in Valparaiso, Chile. [Rodrigo Garrido/Reuters]
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Students shelter from the rain as they take part in a climate demonstration in Seoul, South Korea. [Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters]
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Demonstrators hold placards that read, 'There is no future without a planet' and 'Life is in crisis' in Mexico City. [Raquel Cunha/Reuters]
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People gather for a Fridays for Future global climate strike in Madrid, Spain. [Manu Fernandez/AP]
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A scene from the Fridays For Future demonstration that took place in Santiago, Chile. [Ailen Diaz/Reuters]
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Young people attend a protest against climate change in Vienna, Austria. [Lisa Leutner/Reuters]
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People give out ribbons at the global climate strike protest in New York City. [Brittainy Newman/AP]
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Climate change activists take part in a demonstration in New York. [Brendan McDermid/Reuters]


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