Students Across the World Protest Global Warming, Plead for Future

Students worldwide skipped classes to protest against their governments’ failure to take action against warming.

Adults stand in solidarity with students in a climate protest in Hyderabad on Friday, 15 March 2019. 

(Photo: AP)

Students across a warming globe pleaded for their lives, future and planet on Friday, 15 March, demanding tough action on climate change.

From the South Pacific to the edge of the Arctic Circle, angry students in more than 100 countries walked out of classes to protest what they see as the failures by their governments.

More than 150,000 students and adults who were mobilised by word of mouth and social media protested in Europe, according to police estimates. But the initial turnout in the United States did not look quite as high.

Here are glimpses of students from across the world, who skipped classes on Friday to take to the streets and protest against their governments’ failure to take sufficient action against global warming.

Students play with an inflatable globe as they march to demand action on climate change, in Rome on Friday, 15 March 2019. 

High school students demonstrate outside the Pantheon monument in Paris on 15 March 2019. One of the posters read: “Utopians are not us”. 

Students in Cape Town, South Africa, take part in a protest on 15 March 2019 as part of a global student strike against government inaction on climate change.  

Students take part in a protest against climate change, in Aarhus, Denmark on 15 March 2019. 

A boy wearing a mask sits behind a banner during a rally for global climate strike for future in Seoul, South Korea on 15 March 2019. About 150 students and other protesters attended a rally to protest their governments’ failure to take sufficient action against climate change.

Hundreds of schoolchildren take part in a climate protest in Hong Kong on 15 March 2019.  

A young student takes part in a global school strike for climate change in Canterbury, south east England on 15 March 2019. 

Activist Greta Thunberg, foreground, participates in a climate protest, in central Stockholm, Sweden on 15 March 2019.  

Youngsters stand on the Queen Victoria Memorial outside Buckingham Palace as they take part in a student climate protest in London on 15 March 2019.  

Students from different institutions hold placards and banners as they participate in a climate protest in New Delhi on Friday, 15 March 2019.  

Students take part in a protest against climate change, in Aarhus, Denmark on 15 March 2019. Students in cities worldwide skipped classes on Friday in protest over their governments’ failure to act against global warming.