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Fridays for Future: Can they keep the pressure up?

On the second anniversary of her first school strike, Greta Thunberg is meeting Chancellor Angela Merkel, while the global movement she sparked gears up for post-lockdown protests to demand a climate-just recovery.

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1 Jun 2019
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18 Aug 2019
No toilet, no shower, a hammock; non-sailor Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg is about to begin her trans-Atlantic yacht trip from Plymouth. She’ll spend two noisy weeks on the waves instead of 8 hours flying.
6 Sep 2019
The activist made the 14-day carbon-free journey on a yacht featuring solar panels and electricity-producing turbines. She has called for action to reverse climate change and had a message for President Trump.
18 Sep 2019
The Swedish climate activist joined protesters in Washington after arriving in the US by yacht. The US president is a known climate skeptic who has been rolling back environmental regulations in the country.
22 Sep 2019
Speaking to the US Congress, the teenage climate activist has urged lawmakers to take action on the "existential crisis" of climate change. Thunberg criticized the US for being the "biggest carbon polluter" in history.
24 Sep 2019
The climate summit came just a day after millions of people took to the streets across the world as part of the Global Climate Strike. Thunberg hit out at older generations for doing little to curb carbon emissions.
30 Sep 2019
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