Prior to the UN climate summit, young activists in New York took to the streets and met at their own climate conference. Their message to the politicians, who come together on Monday: We already have a climate crisis!
US President, Donald Trump took only two and a half years, dozens of environmental protection regulations, collect again, and the Paris climate agreement to withdraw, with the global warming is to be limited to less than two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Such a balance is not the USA, just to the most obvious host for a world climate summit. But on Monday, heads of state and government are coming chefs from all over the world for the Climate Action Summit at the United Nations in New York.
The summit is an attempt by the global campaign against climate change to boost. Politicians from around 60 Nations will announce concrete measures that will take their countries to combat global warming. Among the speakers: the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, and India’s Prime Minister Narendra modi. Speech time is only available for countries that have promised far-reaching steps to introduce the Paris climate goals can be achieved.
A protester in New York City, the initiator of the Fridays-For-Future-movement is a tribute
“Not with pretty Speeches to the summit,” said UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres at a press conference in August. “Come back with concrete plans.” Trump wants to skip climate change conference in his old home town, but he is, you can not ignore. In the days before the summit, climate activists had made it loudly to yourself and your matter.
Protest for climate protection
The Global Climate Strike of 250,000 demonstrators marched in New York is estimated to the streets to call for more climate protection and environmental protection – it was the largest Protest in the United States on this day. “The Demo is really good, because it makes the politicians attention, and other shows, that this movement [the youth climate activists] will work,” said the 10-year-old Alisa, who had traveled with her father from Connecticut to New York.
Far harder, the 16-Year-old “Fridays For Future” – founder Greta Thunberg with the heads of state and government went to the court: “The beautiful words of the Mighty are the same, the empty promises are the same, the lies are the same, and the inaction is the same. Nowhere have I found a people in Power who dares to call a spade a spade. No matter where you are: Even this burden you left us teenagers, children,” she said at the closing ceremony in Battery Park at the southern tip of Manhattan. “What good will it be for us to learn, when the powers-that-be refuse to the experts, to listen and to pay attention to the facts?”
The climate demonstration in New York was the largest in the United States
This jab at Donald Trump on the demonstrators well. Many of the posters here who criticized the U.S. President and his policy had to be quite with a sense of humour: On a poster in a teenager had written “On a dead planet, you can’t play Golf”.
“We need courageous actions”
Trump will not attend the UN summit, but experts predict that The era in which the President could climate change as a side thing to dismiss, are over. “The young, inspiring climate activists have launched a door open,” said Charlie Jiang, a Greenpeace activist, DW. “We’re in a crisis. We need bold actions.”
Optimism was also at the youth climate summit, on the grounds of the United Nations felt that on the weekend, more than 1,000 young people from over 140 countries met to discuss strategies for the protection of the environment and to bring politicians to take global warming seriously and to act accordingly.
Nanoua Ewekia (l.) and Laloniu Suiane (R) from Tuvalu at the Youth Climate Summit
“Climate change is scary, especially when you see it with your own eyes,” said the 20-year-old Nanoua Ewekia. She comes from Tuvalu, a Pacific island state that runs as a result of rising sea level danger to be swallowed by the sea. “We need to be loud, so people like [US President Donald Trump] to listen to us. How would feel if you were in our place?”
People in countries such as Tuvalu, will give the UN climate summit special attention. Because if the measures want to announce the heads of state, do not go far enough, you can lose your home forever.