As dusk settled, thousands of banner-carrying demonstrators marched north from Madrid’s main train station on Paseo del Prado — a main thoroughfare that on Friday evening belonged to pedestrians
on Friday — part of a global protest hoping to ramp up pressure on negotiators and politicians taking part in the COP25 climate talks.
“Basically nothing has happened. The climate crisis is still being ignored by those in power,” 16-year-old Swede Greta Thunberg said at a Friday press conference before she and others hit the streets. “It is not a sustainable solution that children skip school. We cannot go on like that.” Although it's not formally part of this year's summit, campaigners and vulnerable countries are pushing behind the scenes to ensure that the text that comes out of Madrid includeswhen negotiators meet for the COP26 in Glasgow.
It's clear that protests are having an impact; the EU saw a green wave in this year's European election, and the bloc is moving to become climate neutral by 2050, but Patricia Espinosa, the U.N.’s climate chief, on Friday cautioned that climate change is a “threat multiplier” that could unleash social clashes.
“There are already people dying as a result of this crisis. So it is not a matter of the future. It’s a matter of now,” Nakate said.
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