Four million. That’s how many of you turned out last Friday to stand up for our planet and all the lifeforms who call it home. 

It was the biggest climate protest the world has ever seen. And it was truly global; from Jakarta to Johannesburg, Bogotá to Berlin, Wolverhampton to Washington DC – it even reached Antarctica. One 15 year-old’s simple act of courage last year launched a movement big enough to get the world’s attention. 

Thousands of students in Czech republic united with the adults and joined the global climate strike before the New York Climate Summit.

We couldn’t all take the day to strike at Greenpeace; someone has to stay behind their desks and share these stories with the world. It was one of the most inspiring days I’ve ever spent at work. The passion and energy and creativity and humour on display had me in tears at one point. 

Here are some of our favourite signs from a day that will go down in history. We can’t wait for the next one on September 27th. 

Protest sign in Global Climate Strike in Johannesburg
Global climate strike - New Delhi India
Along with the world, Brazil took to the streets to defend the planet, our common home. The Global Climate Strike, a youth-led global mobilization that calls for concrete measures to curb carbon dioxide emissions and combat global warming, has brought more than 4 million people to demonstrations around the world in 163 countries. In Brazil, at least 65 cities participated and called for the defense of the Amazon and for climate justice. Greenpeace Brazil, as part of the Climate Coalition, one of the organizers of the Sao Paulo mobilization, took to the streets in support of young people. With irreverence and humor, we deride the dismantling of the current government's environmental policies by showing the agents and discourses that seek to distort real facts and disqualify science.
Morocco takes part in the Fridays for Future global day of action.
Young people and adults are striking to demand urgent action to prevent the climate crisis urging the government to declare a climate emergency.
Millions of people around the world are striking from school or work to demand urgent measures to stop the climate crisis.
Young people and adults are striking to demand urgent action to prevent the climate crisis urging the government to declare a climate emergency.
Climate Strike in Luxembourg, attended by 5000 people calling for immediate action on the global climate emergency.
Several tens of thousands of people are participating in the third global climate strike in Berlin. Greenpeace activists are demanding better climate change policies in 86 cities across Germany.
People across the U.S. left their homes, workplaces, and schools for a youth-led Global Climate Strike. They marched and rallied to demand transformative action to address the climate crisis, and called on leaders to choose to side with young people, not fossil fuel executives polluting the planet for profit. The September 20-27 global week of action is the beginning of a reckoning for the fossil fuel industry that will launch a growing movement of millions of people through the 2020 election toward a more just, green, and peaceful future for all., 8.19.82.US Climate Strikes
Young people and adults are striking to demand urgent action to prevent the climate crisis urging the government to declare a climate emergency.
On Friday, 27 September thousands of young protesters marched through downtown Budapest to demand action against climate change for the III. Global Climate Strike. Protesters gathered on the city’s Buda side, before crossing landmark Chain Bridge for heading towards central Kossuth tér, where Fridays for Future Hungary, Greenpeace and other NGOs delivered speeches in front of the Hungarian Parliament.
Climate strike in Vienna on 27th of September, 2019, as part of the global movement demanding urgent measures to tackle the climate crisis.. In Vienna 80000 young people march for a better future.