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Also known as Youth for Climate, Student Strike for Climate, Youth Strike 4 Climate, Fridays for Climate, FFF, Skolstrejk för klimatet, Youth Strike for Climate, FfF

international youth movement for climate action

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Fridays for Future is an international youth movement where young people organize protests and demonstrations to push for stronger action on climate change. It matters because it mobilizes a generation directly affected by climate impacts to demand that political and business leaders take urgent steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address the climate crisis.

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Key facts

Date
Since 20 August 2018, mostly on Fridays, sometimes on Thursdays, Saturdays or Sundays
Location
International
Caused by
Political inaction against global warming
Goals
Climate justice
Methods
Student strike
Status
Active

via Wikipedia infobox

Described at

FridaysForFuture.de

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
project
Founded by
Greta Thunberg
Image
Start of the FridaysForFuture Demonstration 25-01-2019 Berlin 28.jpg
Political ideology
environmentalism
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on focus list of Wikimedia project
WikiForHumanRights 2019
hashtag
Climatestrike
social media followers
1068
Commons category
School strikes for climate
inception
2018-08-20
short name
FFF
in opposition to
climate change
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Encyclopedic overview

Lead figures Greta Thunberg

Number 1.4 million (for 15 March 2019) 4 million (for 20 September 2019) 2 million (for 27 September 2019)

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