Tag: Greta Thunberg

• Saturday, November 2nd 2019 - 09:15 UTC

  Spain confirmed as host of COP25 climate summit, but Madrid hotels are full and flights expensive

  

  Spain will host the COP25 climate summit in December, the UN said on Friday, after Chile abandoned plans to hold it due to deadly anti-government protests. Some 25,000 delegates had been expected in Chile for COP25, including teenage Swedish activist Greta Thunberg.

• Wednesday, September 25th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Trump's Twitter mocking Greta Thunberg backfires

  

  Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg shot back at on Tuesday at US President Donald Trump's attempt to mock her on Twitter by changing her profile on the social media site to reflect Trump's taunting remark.

• Tuesday, September 24th 2019 - 09:43 UTC

  Thunberg berates older generations at UN Summit for their disregard of climate issues

  

  A group of 16 young activists led by Greta Thunberg, denounced Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany and Turkey to the UN for not protecting children from the impact of climate change in one of Monday's highlights at the historic climate summit in New York convened by the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.

• Saturday, August 24th 2019 - 16:23 UTC

  Amazon fires: Thousands of people protested in front of Brazilian embassies; Montevideo was not an exception

  

  Thousands of people gathered on Friday in front of Brazilian embassies in different cities around the world and Montevideo was no exception. Several hundred protesters, mostly young people, cut off busy Bulevar Artigas Avenue at the embassy of the Amazonian country, whose government is widely criticized for its environmental policies by countless NGOs around the world.

• Saturday, March 16th 2019 - 08:49 UTC

  Classroom emptied as students in the world demand action on climate change: “you're destroying our future”

  

  Hundreds of thousands of young people skipped school across the globe on Friday, 15 March to march through the streets for an international day of student protests aimed at pushing world leaders into action on climate change.

• Monday, March 11th 2019 - 09:09 UTC

  World youth from 80 countries plan to strike on Friday calling on countries to address climate change

  

  The young people of the world have a message for adults, and this Friday (March 15) they will go on strike to make sure their views on climate change are heard. Tens of thousands of students from more than 80 countries and territories - including the United States, Malaysia and Hong Kong - plan to skip school that day to urge adults to treat climate change as a crisis, and for governments to take action now.