Early day motion · EDM 2716 · 5 Sep 2019

SUPPORTING CLIMATE STRIKES ON 20 SEPTEMBER 2019 (No. 2)

Tabled by Caroline Lucas (Green Party) 1 signatures

The motion

This House acknowledges that we are in a climate emergency and that urgent action is required rapidly to decarbonise the UK economy; welcomes the call from Greta Thunberg and youth activists from Fridays for Future for adults to join students and young people striking on 20 September 2019 to demand climate justice; applauds the role that students and young people have played in the UK and across the world in bringing the climate emergency to the attention of policymakers and the public; and supports the planned strikes and demonstrations by young people and adults on 20 September 2019.

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