Greta Thunberg tells Denver rally: ‘We are the change’
World | October 12, 2019 19:24 ISTThunberg said she and fellow youth activists won’t beg those in power to act because she expects leaders to keep ignoring them.
Thunberg said she and fellow youth activists won’t beg those in power to act because she expects leaders to keep ignoring them.
The protesters, some of whom were wearing orange life jackets, on Thursday parked a small, lime-green sailboat at the intersection of Broadway and West 44th Street in New York City's Time Square to draw attention to the planet's rising sea levels.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will address the C-40 Climate Change Summit through a video conference on Friday after the Ministry of External Affairs denied him permission to visit Denmark, a statement said on Thursday.
Earlier, Kejriwal was scheduled to travel to Denmark in an eight-member delegation for C40 Climate Summit which is to be held during 9-12 October in Copenhagen. Leaders from cities such as New York, London, Paris, Los Angeles and Berlin have graced the climate summit.
The protest on Monday was part of a series of global demonstrations organised by the UK-based Extinction Rebellion movement in some 60 cities worldwide.
According to official sources in the Delhi government, the chief minister is scheduled to leave for the summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, at 2 pm on Tuesday.
After several days of searching, researchers found a suitable floe measuring about 2.5 kilometres by 3.5 kilometres (1.5 miles by 2.2 miles) in the Arctic Sea north of Russia that will serve as a base for the mission, the institute said.
Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg said Friday she doesn’t understand why grown-ups and world leaders would mock children and teens for acting on science, responding to attacks on her campaign as students conducted the second wave of global protests demanding action on climate change.
Ridhima Pandey, now 11, filed a petition in 2017 at India’s National Green Tribunal, which oversees environmental concerns, for not taking serious enough steps to combat climate change. It was dismissed, but she escalated it to the Indian Supreme Court.
Earth is in more hot water than ever before, and so are we, an expert United Nations climate panel warned in a grim new report Wednesday. Sea levels are rising at an ever-faster rate as ice and snow shrink, and oceans are getting more acidic and losing oxygen, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said in a report issued as world leaders met at the United Nations.
Priyanka Chopra received backlash on Twitter after she tweeted in support of climate activist Greta Thunberg whose speech at the recently held UN Climate Action Summit went viral.
Thunberg is being recognized “for inspiring and amplifying political demands for urgent climate action reflecting scientific facts,” the prize foundation said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced a global Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York, a Ministry of Home Affairs statement said here on Tuesday.
The 16-year-old, Thunberg gave an emotional appeal in which she scolded the leaders with her repeated phrase, “How dare you.” She also said that the representatives of different countries are failing young people because of their inaction to address global heating and that "young people are starting to understand" their "betrayal."
Greta Thunberg is all of 16!
As they made their pledges at the Climate Action Summit, though, they and others conceded it was not enough. And even before they spoke, teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg shamed them over and over for their inaction: “How dare you?”
Climate activist, Greta Thunberg, gave a powerful speech on Monday at the summit in which she accused the world leaders for ignoring climate change.
President Donald Trump, who was boycotting the Climate Action Summit and holding a parallel meeting on religious freedom, unexpectedly dropped in while Modi was speaking.
PM Modi at UNSG's Summit on Climate Change, in New York: On this year's India's Independence Day, we called for a mass movement to have freedom from single use plastic.
At the UN Climate Action Summit, it will be discussing its new ambition for climate action with delegates from countries, business, the private sector and civil society.
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