Youth leaders at UN demand bold climate change action

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Fresh from the climate strike that took hundreds of thousands of young people out of classrooms and into the streets across the world&comma; youth leaders have gathered at the United Nations to demand radical moves to fight climate change&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads2--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Sixteen-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg&comma; who started the climate strike protest with a lone demonstration outside her country’s parliament about 18 months ago&comma; said&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We showed that we are united and that we&comma; young people&comma; are unstoppable&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>More than 700 mostly young activists attended the first Youth Climate Summit&comma; according to Luis Alfonso de Alba&comma; the UN special climate summit envoy&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"twitter-tweet" data-width&equals;"550" data-dnt&equals;"true">&NewLine;<p lang&equals;"en" dir&equals;"ltr">Over 4 million on <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;hashtag&sol;ClimateStrike&quest;src&equals;hash&amp&semi;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">&num;ClimateStrike<&sol;a> today&period; In 163 countries&period; And counting&&num;8230&semi; <br &sol;>If you belong to the small number of people who feel threatened by us&comma; then we we have some very bad news for you&colon; <br &sol;>This is just the beginning&period; Change is coming &&num;8211&semi; like it or not&period; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;hashtag&sol;FridaysForFuture&quest;src&equals;hash&amp&semi;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">&num;FridaysForFuture<&sol;a> <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;t&period;co&sol;MHGRNx1tnH">pic&period;twitter&period;com&sol;MHGRNx1tnH<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&mdash&semi; Greta Thunberg &lpar;&commat;GretaThunberg&rpar; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;GretaThunberg&sol;status&sol;1175198609660399617&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">September 21&comma; 2019<&sol;a><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;platform&period;twitter&period;com&sol;widgets&period;js" charset&equals;"utf-8"><&sol;script><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The strike across six continents and Saturday’s youth conference comes ahead of a full climate conference next week at the UN General Assembly&comma; which has placed the issue of climate change at front and centre as world leaders gather for the annual meeting&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Activists at Saturday’s gathering demanded money for a fund to help poorer nations adapt to a warming world and provide greener energy&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>They also insisted that the world should wean itself quickly from coal&comma; oil and gas&comma; which causes climate change&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads3--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Argentine climate activist Bruno Rodriguez said&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Stop the criminal contaminant behaviour of big corporations&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Enough is enough&period; We don’t want fossil fuels any more&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;140423" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-140423" style&equals;"width&colon; 600px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-140423" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;09&sol;14449D12-68EC-4880-B07F-BF2144F8763F&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"400" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-140423" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Ms Thunberg&comma; walks around UN building after attending the Youth Climate Summit<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Jayathma Wickramanayake&comma; the UN Secretary-General’s youth envoy&comma; called climate change &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;the defining issue of our time&period; Millions of young people all over the world are already being affected by it”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>During Ms Thunberg’s lifetime&comma; the Earth has already warmed 0&period;6 degrees Fahrenheit &lpar;0&period;34C&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Fijian climate activist Komal Karishma Kumar said global warming is not just taking a toll on the planet but on her generation&comma; especially people from vulnerable places like her Pacific island nation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She said&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Young people from different parts of the world are living in constant fear and climate anxiety&comma; fearing the future&comma; the uncertainty of a healthy life or a life for their children at all&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads4--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I do not want our future generations to submerge with our sinking islands&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed11e7d653f">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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