What is the #Fridaysforfuture, the move that triggered an avalanche of protests in more than 80 countries

Thousands of young people from more than 80 countries took to the streets this Friday to ask governments for concrete actions against climate change. With the hashtag #Fridaysforfuture, videos and images of the protests have invaded social networks. In Buenos Aires, the demonstration takes place at 5 pm in front of the Congress.

In Sydney, Australia, which had one of the highest concentrations, thousands of students they left empty clbadrooms and went out into the streets with banners with slogans such as "The seas rise, we too"Change your thinking, not the weather"or" I will take the math test when actions are taken. "

Australian students did not listen to the authorities' calls to attend the clbad and attended the demonstration called by the so-called gathering movement. "Youth for the climate: Friday for the future".

One of the movement's leaders in Sydney, 15-year-old Vivienne Paduch, told Efe: "We want everyone to know that the fight for climate is not just about fighting for action. a global struggle and concerns everyone equally"

The student asked for a reduction of fossil pollutant emissions: "The easiest thing Australia can do is keep the coal underground because we are the biggest coal exporter in the world. "

But not only in Sydney, the youth left their schools, also in Wellington, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Kampala and Rome. In addition, it is expected that the international student strike will extend Boston to Bogotá, via Dhaka, Durban, Lagos or London.

In France, where several events are planned, a group of young people has blocked the entrance of the headquarters of the bank Société Générale in the business district of La Défense, on the outskirts of Paris, in the first hour. denounce their "harmful" financing for the climate. Some waved banners while others sang "Do not look at us, join us!"

A lot Young people also did not attend clbades in several schools in Uganda, a country that "suffers landslides, floods and deaths due to climate change", denounced the AFP Leah Namugera, 14, at a demonstration in a Christian school on the busy road between Kampala and Entebbe.

Some teachers and local leaders have tried in several cities to persuade their students not to go on strike, but most of these efforts have failed.

Life on the threatened planet

Despite 30 years of warnings With regard to the serious consequences of global warming, carbon dioxide emissions reached record levels in 2017 and last year.

Scientists agree that if greenhouse gas emissions continue at the same rate, this can lead to the destruction of the Earth. an uninhabitable planet.

"On climate change, we must recognize that we failedsaid Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg, who became a symbol of this movement, in front of the world ruling clbad in Davos in January.

The 2015 Paris Treaty on Climate requires localization the temperature of the planet "below" +2 ° C and ideally + 1.5 ºC. But global warming is about to double that figure.

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned in October that only a complete transformation of the global economy and consumption habits could prevent a climate catastrophe.