Topic: #climatechange

Students become boiler-room sleuths to assess climate change risks

In the fall of 2012, New York City received the brunt of an unprecedented storm. In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, also referred to as Superstorm Sandy, the stock market closed for two days. Some...Read more

14-01-2020|Comment|author: admin

World leaders’ inaction on climate change has violated children’s rights – Thunberg

Teenage campaigner Greta Thunberg and fellow young activists have filed an official complaint to the UN claiming world leaders’ inaction on the climate crisis has violated children’s rights. The petitioners, aged from 8 to 17 and...Read more

24-09-2019|Comment|author: Simon Weedy

Amnesty International – ‘Let children strike over climate change’

The head of Amnesty International has made an extraordinary, personal appeal to thousands of schools to let pupils take part in planned global climate strikes. Kumi Naidoo, Secretary General of the global human rights movement, believes...Read more

19-09-2019|Comment|author: Simon Weedy