More than a million young people are expected to join protests in at least 110 countries to demand leaders curb greenhouse gas emissions
Protesters at a ‘climate rally’ in solidarity with the global climate strike, in Melbourne, Australia, on May 24 2019. Picture: REUTERS
Co-ordinators expect more than a million young people to join protests in at least 110 countries, inspired by 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg’s demand for urgent action to slow global warming. Global warming due to heat-trapping GHGs from burning fossil fuels has brought more droughts and heatwaves, melting of glaciers, rising sea levels and devastating floods, scientists say.Last year, global carbon emissions hit a record high, despite a warning from the UN-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in October that output of the gases will have to be slashed over the next 12 years to stabilise the climate.
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