Thousands Of Students Across India Will Skip Schools On September 20 In Support Of Global Climate Strike
Responding to the call of Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, India is all set to witness its own 'Climate Strike'.
From September 20 to 27, thousands of schools students from across the country will skip schools to be part of the Climate Strike.
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Until now 13 cities across the country from Delhi to Mumbai, Kolkata, and Chennai have announced of the hosting of the event.
#ClimateCrisis brings @fridays_india @IndiaRebellion & many citizen movements hand in hand ?for the #ClimateStrike #Week 20-27 Sep with over 75 cities, towns & villages of #India & still counting. TOGETHER WE SHALL OVERCOME!!! @GretaThunberg https://t.co/nISzXs18VR
¡ª Fridays For Future India (@fridays_india) September 7, 2019
The first Global Student Climate Strike was held on March 15th, 2019.
Greta Thunberg had started FridaysForFuture after observing major political inaction on the current global climate crisis. She began the initiative in August 2018 by sitting in front of the Swedish parliament every school day for three weeks to protest the alarming lack of action.
Thunberg's movement had its impact in India too and there have been climate strikes by school and college students in the country in the past few months, demanding that decision-makers take urgent action on the climate crisis. The May 24 climate strike saw a great turnout in cities like Mumbai, Bengaluru, Delhi and others.
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Last month a young climate activist from India was selected as one of the 100 outstanding climate champions from around the world for a special 'Green Ticket' that will help them travel to the UN headquarters next month to participate in the first-ever Youth Climate Summit, a platform for young leaders to showcase their solutions for climate change on a global stage.
Vishnu P R, from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, is the CEO of 'Change Can Change Climate Change (C5) Foundation', an organisation focused on climate change mitigation and adaptation projects.
Bobins Abraham is the Assistant News Editor at Indiatimes. He has more than twelve years of experience in TV and digital journalism. An avid student of history and geopolitics, he is a conservationist and environmentalist at heart. He writes on environment, sustainability, human-animal conflict and more.
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