ReutersTens of thousands of students yesterday gathered for marches across New Zealand to begin a planned second global school strike for climate action. Thunberg, who is credited with inspiring the school strikes, earlier this week lambasted world leaders for a lack of climate change policies at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who is in New York at the climate summit, on Thursday announced that she had support from four other countries for a proposed new trade agreement to combat climate change. New Zealand protesters were again ready to counter arguments that they should be in school, instead of out on the streets protesting. About 500 students in South Korea’s capital, Seoul, urged more government action to address climate change, marching toward the presidential Blue House after a downtown rally, where they said that the government gets an “F” in climate action.

Source: Taipei Times September 27, 2019 15:56 UTC