Organisers of climate protests say they would call on world leaders to immediately end subsidies for oil and gas and to cancel any plans for expanding production.
Activists gather outside Citigroup's headquarters in New York to protest the bank's financial backing of fossil fuel industries. / Photo: AFP
In a year of mounting deaths and economic destruction from record-breaking floods, wildfires and drought, protesters have planned more than 500 gatherings between Friday and Sunday in 54 countries — from Pakistan and Nigeria to the United States. That could make this weekend's action the largest international climate protest since before the Covid-19 pandemic, when the"school strike" movement led by Swedish activist Greta Thunberg saw millions of people worldwide join marches.
"The fossil fuel industry's time is up. We need a just transition, and we need to phase out the fossil fuels causing the destruction of our environment," she told the Reuters news agency.
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