We are in a climate emergency, and our leaders may not be acting like it, but we are.

Well over seven million of us have taken to the streets to demand action on climate. 

Millions of people around the world strike from school or work to demand urgent measures to stop the climate crisis.

The last two Fridays have seen the biggest climate marches ever. Led by fierce students and school children demanding a future, more people recognise that things need to change. 

Protest marches are thriving with creativity, imagination, and energy. This time, from Wellington to Washington and so many places in between we can barely count them all (but it was about 4000), we saw some creations that took serious team efforts to pull off; everything from puppet oil CEOs to more giant globes than we can possibly count.

Here are just a few of the masterpieces that were on display last Friday. 

On 21st September, over 4,000 number of citizens from more than 150 environment/farmers/women's NGOs are mobilized for the global climate strike in Korea under the name of Climate Crisis Emergency Action. People marched from Hyehwa to Jong-gak street of Seoul demanding Korean government to declare climate change emergency, and set up the carbon-emission-zero plan. Staff members and supporters of Greenpeace seoul office joined the climate strike with a hand-made giant puppet, symbolizing the burning earth and ecosystem in danger.
People in Casablanca, Morocco, take to the streets as part of the Global Climate Strike, to demand action on climate and a just transition to a zero-carbon future.
School strike in Athens, Greece, as part of the global climate strike day. The peaceful demonstration organized by Fridays for Future Athens and the student movement starts and finishes at the main square of the cit, Syntagma square, in front of the Greek parliament. The students chant "we are the generation of change" and demand from the government to listen to the scientists and act immediately to keep global temperature at 1,5°C, promoting climate justice. Words are not enough. It is time to act. Many NGOs, organizations and initiatives are present to support the students in their fight.
Across the globe, millions of people have taken to the streets to demand action on climate.
People in Casablanca, Morocco, take to the streets as part of the Global Climate Strike, to demand action on climate and a just transition to a zero-carbon future.
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.
Thousands of people join the Climate Strike in The Hague, Netherlands. People all over the world are demanding immediate climate action and a just transition to a zero-carbon future.
School strike in Athens, Greece, as part of the global climate strike day. The peaceful demonstration organized by Fridays for Future Athens and the student movement starts and finishes at the main square of the cit, Syntagma square, in front of the Greek parliament. The students chant "we are the generation of change" and demand from the government to listen to the scientists and act immediately to keep global temperature at 1,5°C, promoting climate justice. Words are not enough. It is time to act. Many NGOs, organizations and initiatives are present to support the students in their fight.
Climate strike in Ljubljana
Greenpeace MENA collaborated with Ashekman, a Lebanese Graffiti group, to help supporting the youth climate movement part of fridays for Future, to send a message to the world CHANGE YOUR CLIMATE.
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.
Millions of people around the world strike from school or work to demand urgent measures to stop the climate crisis. An inflatable burning globe is among protesters.

See you at the same time, same place, next week.And every Friday after that until world leaders listen, and unite behind the science. 

The next global strike is November 29th. You can find your nearest strike here. 

If you haven’t come yet, there is a movement of millions of people ready to welcome you.

If you have, bring a friend.

Brendan O’Nolan is a campaigner for Greenpeace International