'It's our time to rise up': youth climate strikes held in 100 countries
by Sandra Laville, Matthew Taylor and Daniel Hurst from Environment | The Guardian on (#4B4V0)
School and university students continue Friday protests to call for political action on crisis
From Australia to America, children put down their books on Friday to march for change in the first global climate strike.
The event was embraced in the developing nations of India and Uganda and in the Philippines and Nepal - countries acutely impacted by climate change - as tens of thousands of schoolchildren and students in more than 100 countries went on "strike", demanding the political elite urgently address what they say is a climate emergency.
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