7.6 Million Join Climatestrikes Worldwide
September 28, 2019 Another round of ClimateStrike protests filled the streets of cities around the world. Estimates worldwide for the marches and rallies to protest inaction on climate change were of fewer participants than the week before, but some cities reported higher numbers the second time around. The total number of people who took part in events on both Fridays is estimated at 7.6 million. In Montreal, Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg joined 500,000 protesters in Montreal in one of several hundred ClimateStrikes around the world. Thunberg later met privately with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who had been part of the Montreal march. Trudeau, joining 66 other countries, recently committed his country to reaching carbon neutrality by 2050. In New Zealand, which is very close to the International Date Line an so had some of the first in the world protests, two large cities reported record numbers. Wellington, the capital, reported that 40,000 people joined a downtown march that ended at the Parliament building. The country's largest city, Auckland, estimated that 80,000 people joined a climate protest there. People gathered in groups large and small in countries on nearly every continent, as they have been doing at intervals for nearly two years. At Monday's United Nations Climate Action Summit, Germany trumpeted a plan to combat carbon emissions. A German group named Fridays for Future applaud the idea behind the plan but say it doesn't go far enough. The nearly 200 nations that signed on to the 2015 Paris Agreement essentially promised to help keep global temperatures from an annual rise of 2 degrees Celsius. Already, in just four years since that global vow, temperatures have risen 1 degree Celsius. |
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