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Gallery By Kaitlyn Dolan
Young people across the globe marched, protested, and signaled calls to action today to urge leaders to address climate change. Here’s what it looked like:
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Lola Jones holds a homemade placard as she takes part in a climate protest near Parliament in London. Protesters around the world joined rallies Sept. 20, as a day of worldwide demonstrations calling for action against climate change began ahead of a U.N. summit in New York. –Alastair Grant/AP
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Climate protesters in London were among millions of protesters worldwide, by some estimates, who joined rallies in more than 150 cities calling for action against climate change . –Frank Augstein/AP
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People take part during the Climate Strike in New York. –Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AP
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A protester wears a mock oxygen mask during a demonstration in Kolkata, India.–Bikas Das/AP
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Young women attend a ‘Fridays For Future’ rally in Munich, Germany. Protests against the increase of carbon dioxide emissions were planned in cities around the globe, including 400 in Germany and 800 or more in the United States. –Matthias Schrader/AP
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Climate protesters demonstrate in Parliament Square in London. –Alastair Grant/AP
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Schoolchildren protest with banners outside parliament in London. –Alberto Pezzali/AP
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Young people attend a Climate Strike rally, in Kabul, Afghanistan. In the Afghan capital, where people are dying every day in horrific bomb attacks, a young generation, worried that if war doesn’t kill them climate change will, took part in the global climate strike. –Ebrahim Noroozi/AP
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People who spoke on stage, gather to rally the crowd at the end of the Climate Strike protest in Washington D.C. –Kevin Wolf/AP
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A young protester shouts slogans with others in front of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs in New Delhi, India. –Manish Swarup/AP
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Climate protesters demonstrate outside the local government legislature’s offices in Johannesburg, South Africa. –Themba Hadebe/AP
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Protesters demonstrate in central Copenhagen. –Nils Meilvang/Ritzau Scanpix via AP
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An activist holds a placard at a street protest in Dharmsala, India. –Ashwini Bhatia/AP
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A child holds up her crayon drawing touching on the theme of plastic waste. –Silvia Izquierdo/AP
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Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg, left, takes part during the Climate Strike in New York. Rallies calling for action on climate change are happening in cities around the world Friday ahead of a summit on the issue. –Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AP
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Climate protesters demonstrate in Nicosia, Cyprus. –Petros Karadjias/AP
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Students and guests gather on the steps of the Statehouse during a climate change protest in Indianapolis. Across the globe, hundreds of thousands of young people took to the streets Friday to demand that leaders tackle climate change in the run-up to a U.N. summit. –Darron Cummings/AP
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Environmental activists hold placards during a rally outside the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to coincide with the global protests on climate change at suburban Quezon city, northeast of Manila, Philippines. Various environmental groups in the country are participating in what is expected to be the world’s largest mobilization on climate change known as “Global Climate Strikes.” –Bullit Marquez/AP
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Students chant as they gather for a climate strike rally at the Texas capitol, in Austin, Texas. –Eric Gay/AP
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Hundreds of people gather outside City Hall in Portland, Maine, to demand that leaders take action on climate change. –Robert F. Bukaty/AP