Thread by @ContextClimate

📣 Today, young people across the world are taking part in a #GlobalClimateStrike.

🌏 Ahead of COP26, many are demanding more action from world leaders to tackle the #ClimateCrisis.

⭕️ Here’s what protests are looking like in 5 cities.👇🧵

🇩🇪 Berlin

⭕️ Activist @GretaThunberg called for urgent action at the #GlobalClimateStrike rally.

📣 "The concentration of CO2 in the sky hasn't been this high for at least 3 million years," she said.

🗣"It is clearer than ever that no political party is doing close to enough."

🇬🇧 London

📣 Young people took to the streets and called to #UprootTheSystem.

🗣 They were joined by prominent politicians such as British MP @JeremyCorbyn and ex-@GreenParty leader @NatalieBen.

🇰🇪 Nairobi

📣 Around 30 @Fridays4future protesters gathered in a park in central Nairobi.

🗣 This was climate activist @PatriciaKombo’s message to leaders: “We want real climate action at @COP26 because we can't wait any longer."

🇨🇭 Zurich

📣 Over 4,000 people demonstrated to call for #ClimateJustice, according to @Klimastreik.

🇺🇸 Washington, D.C.

📣 Young people gathered near the U.S. Capitol Building to call for green infrastructure.

🗣 They also demanded that the U.S. "take responsibility for the damage and destruction that it is causing the countries" worst-hit by the #ClimateCrisis.

🗣 “The countries that haven’t caused climate change are the ones that are most targeted by [climate] deaths.”

⭕️ Climate protestors staged a 'die-in' near the U.S. Capitol to mark today’s #GlobalClimateStrike by @Fridays4future.

#UprootTheSystem

🌏 @GretaThunberg's @Fridays4future movement has resumed mass street protests for the first time since the pandemic began.

⭕️ Read more about their demands to #UprootTheSystem at this year's #GlobalClimateStrike 👇 news.trust.org/item/202109241…