#FridaysforFuture is a global climate campaign that began after the then 15-year-old Greta Thunberg sat in front of the Swedish parliament for three consecutive Fridays in August 2018, holding up the sign ‘Skolstrejk för Klimatet’ (School Strike for Climate), sharing her motivations for doing so on the social media. In September, Greta decided to continue striking on Fridays until the Swedish parliament provides guarantees for policies that will keep global warming well under the 2˚C set in the Paris Agreement to prevent irreversible damage caused by climate change. Her example inspired similar protests by students and their parents worldwide, later leading to a series of global climate strikes, of which the one in September 2019 that attracted 7.6 million people in 185 countries was the largest climate strike in history to date.(1,2)
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