By Doreen St. Féli x. September 20, 2019. This story does not necessarily represent the position of our parent company, IBM. He explains that he's been a climate activist for quite some time, helping organize the People's Climate March in New York City in 2014 — an event which brought 400,000 people out into the streets. About 1 in 4 have participated in a walkout, attended a rally or written to a public official to express their views on global warming. More than 2,000 scientists from about 40 countries signed letters committing themselves to the global climate strikes on the 20th and 27th of September. "But now we're here. Often it is brandished as an accessory, sometimes it is used as a gateway, others still it is considered merely a credential. The Climate Clock is available on their website, as well as a Climate Clock app for smartphones and a do-it-yourself maker-kit version of the clock. September 17, 2020. © 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. The latest updates on the strikes and events being held around the world for the global day of climate action on 25 September. Greta Thunberg’s speech at the Climate Action Summit, Follow the livestream of the third Global Climate Strike, Climate Action Week, emotions and numbers from the greatest climate mobilisation in history. September 20th was chosen as a key date, as it is the Friday before the UN climate action summit where Greta Thunberg will speak. For the first time since Greta Thunberg began to protest in front of the Swedish Parliament last year, strikes today have involved adults who also marched for the climate together with hundreds of thousands of young people. ART KITS. The Global Climate Strike in New York, photos and stories from the first day of the Climate Week, Stay up to date with news about sustainability, From Greta Thunberg to Donald Trump: a report from the Climate Action Summit, “How dare you? More than 250,000 people marched through the streets of Manhattan for the New York climate strike on September 20th.It is the largest climate mobilization ever, not only for the United States (with more than 500 strikes organized across its territory) but also globally: more than 4 million people have striked in more than 161 countries and 5000 locations around the world. New York City’s school district, which includes more than a million students, also helped the movement. She'll speak to Congress before heading to New York later this week for the protests and to take part in the U.N. More than 10,000 youth have registered to vote in battleground states in just two weeks. It took a lot of doing, but the stars just seemed to align on the idea of transforming the Metronome. One of the largest mobilizations for climate action in history was an intergenerational call to fight for the planet. The point of displaying this dichotomy, according to Boyd: "Our planet has a deadline. More than 800 Global Climate Strike events are planned Friday across the United States. The demands of the New York strike are the following: no to fossil fuels, a just transition to renewable energy, justice for front line communities and making the world’s largest polluters pay. “The 20th of September is special because we wanted intergenerationality. More than 800 events connected to the strike are planned in the United States on Friday, three days before the Climate Action Summit at the United Nations. Scientists are telling us that the next seven years are crucial to the fate of the Earth and to humanity.". “Why should we study for a future that is being taken away from us? Yet in this case, numbers also help to demonstrate that not only is this the greatest climate mobilization in history but also that adults are perhaps finally ready to follow the youth’s leadership, to follow their example of determination and, in this common path, to stop at nothing. But if one part of the strike was festive and lively, another one is serious and challenging. Mohammed Reza Sahib, who fights for the right to water as a public good, has contributed to halting the privatisation of this resource in Indonesia. Scientists urged their colleagues around the world to cancel lectures, move them outdoors or turn them into courses for the whole community. We didn’t get out on the street or sacrifice our education for the adults and politicians to take selfies with us and tell us that they ‘really really admire what we do’”, says Greta in her speech to the audience. On September 25th 2020, thousands of climate strikes will take place across the globe to demand urgent action to tackle the climate crisis. This is the goal of the international Paris Climate Agreement — a level of warming which, if we exceed, scientists say the impacts will become increasingly more disastrous. "You can't negotiate with reality. We recognize our responsibility to use data and technology for good. The strike is the third global strike of the school strike for climate movement. Climate Action Summit. He’s been fighting for solutions to India’s water crisis for a long time. You’ve stolen my dreams and childhood”. To us, environmental and human sustainability represent an authentic lifestyle that defines our way of being in the world; an attitude centred around conscientiousness and concrete actions. Another slightly less aggressive benchmark from the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says that human-caused greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced 45% from 2010 levels by 2030 — nine years away — to give the Earth a 50% chance of not exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming. It's not. It is the largest climate mobilization ever, not only for the United States  (with more than 500 strikes organized across its territory) but also globally: more than 4 million people have striked in more than 161 countries and 5000 locations around the world. Copyright © 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. “I will never not want my children to grow up on a safe and healthy planet. Many people, admittedly including myself, always thought it was the U.S. national debt clicking off at a breakneck pace. Salman Khairalla is an Iraqi activist who’s been fighting to protect his country’s marshes, a key water resource, since 2007.