TAKE ACTION NOW: Taiwanese, and billions of other people, could become climate refugees, the students said, urging everyone to reduce their carbon footprint
Taipei Times
Date: May 06, 2019
By: Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
Environmental groups yesterday urged students nationwide to join the Global Climate
Environmental protection groups and students yesterday hold a news conference at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei calling on other students to join the Global Climate Strike For Future event on May 24.Photo: Lo Pei-der, Taipei Times
Strike For Future on May 24 to demand concrete action from adults and the government on climate change.
The groups were accompanied by more than a dozen junior-high school and university students at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei.
Taiwan Healthy Air Action Alliance convener Yeh Guang-peng (葉光芃) said that Swedish teenage climate advocate Greta Thunberg in August last year initiated the “school strike for climate” outside the Swedish Parliament, adding that the movement spread around the world, leading to a global youth climate strike on March 15.
The strike was followed by a series of climate change protests in London last month, and British lawmakers last week declared an “environment and climate emergency,” making the UK the first country to do so, he said. [FULL STORY]
