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Climate: can young activists still sway the outcome of COP negotiations?

Young activists are key figures of the climate movement. So much has been self-evident ever since Greta Thunberg sat outside the steps of the Swedish parliament during school hours in August 2018 and galvanised others from her generation to follow suit in the international movement of Fridays for Future.

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Germany Faces Public Transportation Disruptions Amid Worker Strikes

Ver.di union and Fridays for Future activists lead public transportation strikes in Germany for improved working conditions. GDL union disputes with Deutsc...

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‘Two worlds colliding’: Berlin transport workers and climate activists unite over rights

Two groups are striking for better working conditions and investment in Germany’s underfunded public transport

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Public transport workers join climate activists for week of strikes across Germany

Verdi union in unusual alliance with Fridays For Future, founded by Greta Thunberg, based on common goals

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‘No climate justice without peace’: Gaza becomes flashpoint for climate activists

Many in the global movement are divided on whether or how to take a stand on the conflict

The Guardian - UK

We won’t stop speaking out about Gaza’s suffering – there is no climate justice without human rights

Fridays for Future Sweden activists haven’t ‘been radicalised’ – solidarity with marginalised people has always been at the heart of our message, say Fridays for Future Sweden activist Greta Thunberg and others

The Guardian - UK

German branch of ‘Fridays for Future’ distances itself from Greta Thunberg over Israel remarks

Decision comes two days after Thunberg chanted ‘no climate justice on occupied land’ in Amsterdam

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Controversy over European climate activists’ criticism of Israel

Extinction Rebellion protest at The Hague accuses Netanyahu of ‘war crimes’ and running an ‘apartheid regime’

The Guardian - UK

Threats to Germany’s climate campaigners fuelled by politicians’ rhetoric, says activist

Luisa Neubauer, of Fridays for Future, cites language used by the chancellor amid protest crackdown

The Guardian - UK

Swedish government faces backlash after slashing climate budget

Move has drawn comparisons to UK, where Rishi Sunak has U-turned on environmental commitments

The Guardian - UK

Climate activist Greta Thunberg won't be school striking after graduation but vows to still protest

Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg says she will no longer be able to skip classes as a way to draw attention to climate change because she is graduating from high school

The Independent UK

Earth's warriors, young and old, keep battling and hoping

Young and old, famous and not so well known, there are many people from around the globe who make it their mission to try to save the planet, especially from the ravages of climate change

The Independent UK

Young Edinburgh activists halt city centre traffic as part of global climate strike

A crowd of young activists halted traffic in Edinburgh on Friday as they campaigned against the extraction of fossil fuels. A crowd marched from the Meadows down to Holyrood.

Edinburgh Live

Activists halt traffic in Edinburgh as part of global climate strike

Hundreds of young campaigners marched through Edinburgh calling for an end to fossil fuel extraction on Friday afternoon.

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Watch live: Protesters hold Fridays for Future climate change strike in Germany

Watch live as climate activists hold a protest in Berlin, Germany, to demand the government takes tougher action on global warming, particularly in the transportation sector.

Reuters

German municipal transport faces strike on Friday, led by union, youth movement

German union Verdi and youth movement, Fridays for Future, jointly called for strikes to disrupt municipal transport in six German states on Friday to demand better pay and conditions and a review of transportation policies.

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Where Greta Thunberg does (and doesn't) expect to see action on climate change

Greta Thunberg says she has no plans to get into politics as a career, and she thinks she can do more as a climate campaigner on the outside.

Radio France Internationale

Young protesters at Cop27 demand climate damage fund

As the UN’s Cop27 climate talks were extended by a day, Fridays For Future protesters at the event demanded that big-polluting rich nations agree to loss and damage financing for vulnerable countries already ravaged by the climate crisis – a major obstacle to a final deal.

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‘This crisis is hugely on our shoulders’: A young activist's fears over climate change

EIGHTEEN-year-old Dylan Hamilton wasn’t even born when the first COP was held and he’s frustrated that progress on stopping climate…

The Guardian - UK

Thousands call for ‘climate reparations and justice’ in global protests

Fridays for Future ‘strikes’ in about 450 places demanded rich countries pay for damage from global heating

The Guardian - US

‘The climate crisis is now’: haunting video spotlights California wildfires

The release by a Greta Thunberg-inspired activist group was timed with the global climate strike protests launching Friday

Belfast Live

The Earth's Corr: The endless push for profit is going to do us all in

We’re not even close to where we need to be and temperatures are still rising as there’s delay after delay on real action

Irish Mirror

Dail protest against Irish MEPs voting to label gas and nuclear 'green' in EU taxonomy

'Gas is a dirty fuel and nuclear is also not an option when it comes to renewable'

The Guardian - UK

‘It cannot be activism as usual’: Kumi Naidoo and Luisa Neubauer on the way forward for climate justice

As the climate movement hits another impasse, activists Luisa Neubauer and Kumi Naidoo explain why we need to mobilise many more people from all walks of life

Daily Record

Dumfries school pupils hold climate change protest outside council headquarters

The pupils went on strike as part of the Fridays for the Future campaign in a bid to make their voices heard

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