People in at least 60 cities across Poland are expected to take part in the Global Climate Strike and a week of environmental action from September 20 to 27.
Environmentalists have appealed to teachers to allow schoolchildren to skip classes on Friday to join “the largest climate strike in history,” according to the noizz.pl website.
Hundreds of thousands, including schoolchildren, university students and others, are expected to protest in 130 countries against inaction by politicians in the face of a deepening climate crisis, the website has said.
According to the globalclimatestrike.net website, people in more than 2,500 locations across the globe are on Friday expected to walk out of work and classes to demand serious climate action.
“It will be an extraordinary show of global power—one that will also have enormous impacts on local fights for climate justice everywhere,” the website said.
It added that organisers “who have been leading fights against dangerous fossil fuel projects, or to defend their communities from the growing impact of extreme weather,” would stage a strike "to say that climate justice requires bold local action from every level of government."
The protest comes ahead of a United Nations climate gathering in New York.
(gs/pk)
Source: noizz.pl, globalclimatestrike.net