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Youth groups around the world staged protests today to demand quick action to stop climate change in the biggest movement since the start of the Corona pandemic.
Reuters reported that the protests extend for five weeks before the United Nations Climate Change Summit, which aims to take more effective measures by world leaders to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Demonstrations have begun in Asia and protests are planned in more than 1,500 locations, according to the "Fridays for Future" movement, and in Germany alone, organizers expect hundreds of thousands to participate in more than 400 protests.
"Everyone makes promises and no one keeps, we want more work, we want actions, not just promises," said one of the participants in a demonstration in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka.
While the Swedish activist Greta Thunberg considered, "A very strange year and a half has passed with this epidemic, but the climate crisis has not definitely disappeared, but rather it has become more urgent."
In the British port of Dover, the busiest shipping port in Europe, the authorities said that protesters had blocked the port's entrances and exits, and the "Block Britain" group, which this month repeatedly closed a land route around London, stated that more than 40 people blocked a ring road leading to the port.
Friday's protests represent a resurgence of youth demonstrations calling for climate change, in which more than six million participated in 2019 before the Covid-19 pandemic stopped mass gatherings and replaced them with working through the virtual world.
Last August, a report on climate science issued by the United Nations warned that human activity has been causing climate disruptions for decades, but indicated that rapid and large-scale action could halt some of the devastating effects, and so far governments have not developed plans to reduce emissions fast enough for that to happen. .