2023 saw the hottest year in human civilization & the presence of 2456+ fossil fuel lobbyists at COP28.
In 2024, let's send fossil fuels to the 🚮 dustbin of history & build a world of community-led renewable energy for all. ✊
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"These nine young people all share something in common. None of them are counting on the adults in the room to provide bright solutions to the climate crisis."
BREAKING: We welcome news that more countries & financial actors have joined the Powering Past Coal Alliance
@PastCoal
, whose members pledge to end investments in new coal plants at home & abroad + phase out coal power by 2030s for rich countries & 2040s for the developing world!
250,000+ people showed up today to strike in NYC! This is momentous. Thank you to all the youth leaders.
And this is just the beginning of a whole week of action around the world.
#ClimateStrike
(Video credit:
@galeabrewer
)
It’s official. 500,000 people came out into the streets of Montreal today to join the Global
#ClimateStrike
They’re part of the 6.6 million who took part all over the world. The momentum is on our side and we are not going anywhere.
#FridaysForFuture
We see you Vietnam!
For the first time, people of Ho Chi Minh City took to the street to join the Global
#ClimateStrike
. Young people are demanding serious and urgent
#climateaction
People gathered Sunday in Iceland for a funeral at the site of the island nation's first glacier lost to climate change.
"This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and know what needs to be done."
The Arctic is on fire. The Arctic is on fire. The Arctic is on fire. The Arctic is on fire. The Arctic is on fire. The Arctic is on fire. The Arctic is on fire. The Arctic is on fire. The Arctic is on fire. The Arctic is on fire. The Arctic is on fire. The
It's official: 7 MILLION AND COUNTING!
This week's
#climatestrike
has grown into an intergenerational demand for climate justice from all walks of life, in all corners of the globe. You did this, all of you!
And we're not stopping here 🌏
Thanks
@BLACKPINK
for getting involved in climate action!
If young people want to get involved and fight for their future, then it means we need to end the era of fossil fuels and embrace renewable energy.
#JEDAUNTUKIKLIM
GARUT. Puluhan pelajar SMP & SMA kompak bergerak bersama mahasiswa di Garut, 21 September 2019. "Sekarang kita sebagai anak muda harus beraksi untuk melindungi bumi & menghentikan perubahan iklim," tulis Pearly Damayanti.
📷 IG
@pearlmusic27
#ClimateStrike
#Garut
We are *SO* deeply grateful to everyone who contributed to make the Global
#JustRecovery
Gathering a success. We hope that it helped you feel global solidarity and brought you new energy in this crucial movement to halt the climate crisis.
Meanwhile in London...
"We shouldn’t be the ones standing here, begging the world, begging banks, to divest from a problem that everyone knows the solution to. We need to be divesting from the fossil fuel industry, this is the only way we can insure that our homes are safe."
Over 1.4 million young in over 300 cities took part in the March 15
#climatestrike
- the biggest day of global climate action ever.
"World leaders are losing the window to act, but we are not gonna stand still watching their inertia.”
@GretaThunberg
#FridaysForFuture
PRESS RELEASE: "At a total of over 6.6 million and still counting, the week of Global Climate Strikes is on par with the 2003 anti-Iraq war protest as one of the largest coordinated global protest in History.”
#ClimateStrike
On Wednesday, Indigenous women marched and sang across the avenue that leads to the Supreme Court of Brazil to show the judges that they will fight for their territories. Indigenous lands are key to the ensuring a safe global climate and environmental justice!
#MarcoTemporalN
ão
China's commitment to stop funding coal projects abroad is a huge win for the climate movement — especially in the lead-up to the global climate talks at
#COP26
.
Full statement transcript here:
"I am constantly inspired by women making waves in the world’s largest ocean, even in the face of a climate breakdown."
#WorldOceansDay
We honor some of the incredible women of the Pacific who take care of our blue planet.
@President_Heine
@kathykijiner
“How dare you!”
@GretaThunberg
telling it like it is at the UN
#ClimateAction
Summit.
“How dare you pretend this can be solved with business as usual…We will not let you get away with it…The world is waking up whether you like it or not”
#ClimateStrike
“We’re all in the same boat, so everyone should be concerned about this.” Time for everyone to join
@GretaThunberg
and youth everywhere. Sign up today and get your community ready to
#ClimateStrike
When global elites opened their Financial Times this morning, they were greeted with a full page around the 5 Principles of a
#JustRecovery
These demands can't be ignored. Through organizing and people power we will make them happen.
BREAKING: In a bold move against Trump's offshore drilling plan, California will deny all transport of oil from new drilling off the Pacific coast through the state.
Other states should follow suit.
#ProtectOurCoasts
An extreme king tide is expected in Kiribati this weekend - reaching up to 2.95m - higher than some sea walls. Government is urging everyone to take safety precautions. Our prayers are with you.
Students are preparing their seawalls. (PC:
@palmsaustralia
)
⚠️ BREAKING: Pacific Island leaders declare a
#ClimateCrisis
.
"This declaration makes clear that the current scale of the climate crisis calls for urgent action to phase out coal and other fossil fuels."
💥BREAKING💥The
@350Pacific
Climate Warriors are carrying the national flags of the Pacific nations to the plenary space inside
#COP26
— to protest the fact that energy lobbyists are sabotaging climate outcomes. 🛢❌
BREAKING:
@fffMAPA
youth climate activists from Namibia, Uganda, Mexico & Bangladesh on board the Rainbow Warrior have now been granted permission to sail to
#COP26
in Glasgow. They're sailing to COP to demand world leaders attending the conference ‘stop failing us’!
@Greenpeace
So far 89 countries are on
#ClimateStrike
Sept 20-27
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Join us
A local climate volunteer in New Delhi captured the incredible energy of
#ClimateStrike
students there. "You sold our future, just for profit!"
#FridaysForFuture
Ahead of
#COP26
in Glasgow,
@350Pilipinas
held a 🐲 dragon & 🦁lion dance at the Chinese Embassy in Manila to to drum up Asian-led climate action. The dance symbolizes the need for renewal, driving home the message that the time to act is now.
Read more:
BREAKING: New York State’s $226 billion pension fund will divest from the riskiest oil and gas companies and decarbonize by 2040. It’s the biggest pension in the world to take comprehensive climate action.
#DivestNY
In just 10 days the global climate movement will Rise together. On Sep. 8th hundreds of local actions across the world will demand action to solve the climate crisis. It's time for bold leadership and a fossil free world. It's time to
#RiseforClimate
BREAKING: Over 4 million people strike for climate action!
- 5,800
#ClimateStrike
actions in 163 countries
- 73 trade unions and 820 civil society organizations in support
- 3,024 companies and 7,371 websites join Digital Climate Strike
Our release:
5 years since the Paris Agreement was signed, carbon emissions are still rising 📈. We need real solutions - not meaningless commitments like net zero pledges.
In 2021, we will escalate our actions to stop fossil finance and keep fossil fuels in the ground. Join us ✊
I'm Oladosu Adenike an indigenous Africa leader for climate justice & peace building
@the_ecofeminist
. I've been on
#FridaysForFuture
46 weeks as the first African climate striker demanding for urgent climate action from Nigeria leader for peace building and a livable future.
WOW. The biggest union in France just announced it's supporting the global
#climatestrike
on September 20 and 27! Your call to action is spreading fast
#fridaysforfuture
.
Russian FFF climate activist Arshak Makichyan has been unjustly sentenced to 6 days in a detention center for a peaceful
#climatestrike
. Arshak's arrest is a blatant act of intimidation toward all climate activists. Sending you much strength from around the world,
@MakichyanA
.
Yesterday, Thunberg repeated the phrase. “Avoiding climate breakdown will require cathedral thinking,” she said. “We must lay the foundation while we may not know exactly how to build the ceiling.”
Let's be clear - the fossil fuel industry was struggling way before COVID19. You can read a full explanation by
@drvox
here:
"It would be a shame to emerge from this crisis still clinging to the past rather than facing, and preparing for, the future."
At Davos,
@GretaThunberg
challenged the world elite on climate. But many others also took incredible climate action over the last week, too.
Learn more:
The message from climate scientists is simple. Any chance of keeping warming below 1.5°C hinges on ending fossil fuel expansion immediately.
#IPCC
#1o5C
London, just now:
#climatestrike
moves through Parliament square
A good reminder for leaders all over the world: a climate emergency demands ACTION!
#fossilfree
Support the strikers>>
It was a historic day, and it’s just the beginning. 4 million people joined the youth-led call for climate action.
This week and into the future, we will keep working for justice and an end to the fossil fuel era.
#ClimateStrike
#FridaysForFuture
France 40,000 Ukraine 2,600 South Africa 5,000
Turkey 10,000 Japan 5,000 Germany 1.4m
Georgia 1,200 Ireland 30,000 Australia 400,000
London 100,000 Paris 10,000 Islamabad 3,000
Cape Town 2,000 Stockholm 10,000 Tokyo 2,800
Istanbul 3,500 Honiara 100
It just started
#ClimateStrike
The national monuments slashed by Trump are officially open to drilling and mining today. This is the largest elimination of protected areas in U.S. history.
When
@GretaThunberg
met
@AOC
😍😍😍 “Hope is something you have to manifest into the world, and once one person has hope, it can be contagious.” Join them on Sep 20th in the streets to create hope —>>
Eddie Bernice Johnson, a former nurse, will now be the head of the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. For the first time in 8 years, there is a committee chair who accepts the scientific consensus that humans are contributing to climate change.
"We didn't come here to sign our death sentences and the text in its current state is that.
And we know COP is not yet over. We know that leaders and our negotiators are still in there, holding the line and they're still fighting." — 🗣️
@JoSikulu
of
@350Pacific
We did it! The Williams fracked gas pipeline proposed for New York City has been stopped. This is a multi-year people powered victory! There’s no need for new fossil fuel projects. Huge thanks to everyone involved.
#StopTheWilliamsPipeline
New York just became the largest US city to sue Big Oil and divest from fossil fuels. This is just the beginning. If the climate movement can make it here, it can make it anywhere.
BIG NEWS 🎉
@SAFTU_media
South Africa's 800,000-strong union federation joins
#ClimateStrike
General Secretary
@Zwelinzima1
calls on workers around the 🌍 to join them & stand for climate justice. Join them >>
New York City just announced the largest municipal ban on fossil fuel projects, EVER. City agencies won't approve ANY new dirty pipelines, plants or other projects.
Govts everywhere must follow NYC's lead and ban all fossil fuel projects. Read more here:
The US military emits more climate disaster causing greenhouse gases than 140 countries (yes you read that right.)
There’s just no way around it. Resisting the fossil fuel economy means resisting the war economy too.
wow. we’re speechless. RIP Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an advocate for equality and reason. A feminist and an icon who held on in the name of justice.
BREAKING: California passes historic bill for 100% clean energy by 2045. Gov. Brown should step up and sign
#SB100
now. We will
#RiseforClimate
to make sure he does.
Our statement:
This. Is. What. People. Power. Looks. Like.
RIGHT NOW in San Francisco, a massive crowd of thousands just started marching at
#RiseForClimate
.
We're marching today for a safe climate, good jobs, & justice for all—because the solutions we need can't wait.
We've been tracking reported crowd counts at
#ClimateStrike
events worldwide.
4 MILLION people and counting have walked out of school, work, or home today.
We're not through. More actions are coming this week.
THANK YOU. Together we will build a world that works for all of us.
“What we’re pushing to get back to are those values of respecting Mother Earth, and understanding that if we allow these banks and these fossil fuel companies to continue exploring and taking these resources, we are no longer going to have a Mother Earth"
The only thing scarier than hitting 415ppm of CO2 for the first time in human history is not doing anything about it. Join us and take action with the urgency this
#climatecrisis
demands!