3. Why Activism?
•Youth are least responsible for climate change
•Protecting and preserving the environment from present
generation
•Governments not tracking 2015 Paris Agreement
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CLIMATE CHANGE ACTIVISM
Main focus
•Nuclear power, Usage of coal, reducing non renewable
resources
•Reducing Co2 emission and global warming
•Educating the masses about climate
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• Young people join together to fight against Climate Change
• Acting together to preserve earth for next generation21st century
• Work in collaboration in social, scientific, political, and conservational fields with the main
purpose of addressing environmental concerns
Some Major Activism
•2014 People’s Climate March
– New York
•2015 Global Climate March
•2016 Climate Mobilization
•2018 School strike for
climate / Fridays for Future
•2019 Youth Climate Strikes
•2019 Global Climate Strike
4. CLIMATE CHANGE ACTIVIST
Greta Thunberg
• School Student, Swedish activist
• Greta Effect - youth climate strike
movement
• School strike for climate
• Fridays for Future
• Flight Shame
• No one is too small to make a difference
• 2018 United Nations Climate Change
Conference
• 2019 UN Climate Action Summit – “how dare
you”
• Lesein Mutunkei (Kenya) – Deforestation
• Alexandria Villasenor (USA) - FFF in UN
Headquarters
• Aditya Mukarji (India) – Against Plastic
• Ella and Caitlin McEwan (UK) – Plastic Toys in
children food(McDonalds and Burgar King)
• Leah Namugerwa (Uganda) – desertification
• Lilly Platt (Netherlands) – FFF
• Holly Gillibrand (UK) - FFF
Other Young activist
5. Germany and climate change
Anti Greta
• Average air temperature in Germany increased by
1.5C between 1881 and 2018
• January 2020, company Siemens -Carmichael coal
mine - Indian company Adani Group in Australia
• Greta -15 Children filing a lawsuit against
Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, and Turkey
under the UN's Convention on the Rights of the
Child
Germany Climate
Changes
• Naomi Seibt – 19-year-old German activist
• Answered Greta “ Human are not responsible for
climate change”
