3 princes. dream of leading the world. there are 4 power and boundless ambition of the middle east and to a great crisis. the life of the cold starts november 27th on d w. i'm at. the end we want to survive on this planet if we don't say that now it will be too late as the space for over a year young people the world over have been organizing school strikes demanding

immediate action to stop climate change reza tune back the star of the movement sailed across the atlantic to take her message to the u.s. but not everyone's on board. the flight in my opinion they should strike at the weekend but during school hours. in europe the young activists spent their summer vacation building networks discussing in formulating their shared values and core demands. 16 year old funk ahem bliss from berlin has been active in the fridays for a future movement for 6 months. school's out for the summer but she's been up since 6 o'clock. yes. that's and her friend emile are heading to dortmund in western germany to take part in a friday's for a future summer congress. they met on a strike. pretty salacious.

they're on their way to the station like all the young environmental activists in the movement they make a point of never fly and only travel by bus or by train. throughout the summer climate camps are taking place all over europe including in poland the czech republic italy and germany. 1400 activists are attending the congress in dortmund. they start the day with a quick breakfast they're on a tight schedule the 1st panels and workshops are kicking off at 9 am sharp. as i'm not talking about how to ask if she could help but she disappeared off a chair well i'm not helping i don't want to porridge. there are now $600.00 local

chapters of friday's for future in germany they're connected on social media for the dortmund summit is the 1st time they've all come together and met in person. it's been an organizational feat. but it was over months i suppose this is very limited to the injuries are we've made a big effort to be as professional as possible and i think we're doing very well we all have our bracelets set everything up. made sure that everyone knows what their job is and that they do it properly ma. says if the germs aren't us. this is excessive use of force 1st of may and i don't know what it's like at a professional congress but i feel we've achieved a level of professionalism that's actually very impressive. by and focused on. the congress is also about. holding networks.

has met 16 year old from switzerland. the organizers have invited christophe schmidt to take part in a panel about carbon tax the chairman of the german council of economic experts he advises the german government on carbon pricing. and it's a misconception you have just read that it was $22.00 degrees celsius in greenland yesterday and within just 24 hours 12000000 tons of ice melted we want to know what we can do to stop this happening to prevent temperatures from continuing to rise. and a carbon tax is one proposal that comes up again and again. as you said people are miserly and that's why pricing works you could put it like this is something is free it's not worth anything that was fair is used as a free dumping ground for carbon emissions there is no global cost applied to this

and that's why it's overused. believes that carbon pricing would make the german government stick to its climate targets. but with the general public accept it. friday's for future is calling on the government to introduce a 180 year old tax on each metric ton of c o 2 in europe per capita c o 2 emissions are $8.00 tonnes a year so everyone would have to pay $1512.00 euros in carbon tax schmidt says that's too much. the maximum tax the public would accept would be 40 euros per tonne. and people would also need incentives if they make environmentally friendly choices such as not driving or not flying for example they could claim a reimbursement that the main issue schmidt says is raising awareness. seeing this for a lot of the statistics floating around are made up so it's important that the

issues in the background are properly understood as a top. quality for. the students want solutions that work and they want them now they ask a lot of questions laina is interested in the international context you. can monday so it's what's the best way of moving ahead globally with a carbon tax obviously every country has to agree on it it's no use doing nothing just sitting tight and waiting to see what other countries do to test and the mom didn't choose if you we would already be doing a lot if we achieve the targets agreed within the e.u. that would be an important step if europe china and the u.s. were all on board by 2030 years huge step so we can for souter's to act it's not for us to persuade them that it's worth it as you know. the stuff can now say this what other countries do is not the issue that switzerland germany whatever have

a responsibility that. owns saying i'll only do it if you do it is just childish that's not who is and fast in this tent does. other countries are always being used as an excuse me this will only do it if you do it attitude gets us nowhere if that's what all countries do then all that happens is what's happening now nothing's missed the fridays for future activists refused to compromise in their demands so far the movement has been a loose collection of disparate groups head of the summer congress 18 year old jaco blasio founded the organization organize future which manages the events budget of $200000.00 euros made up of participant contributions and donations kind of insofar as one can no individual can be liable for the vent involving $1400.00 people but if i end up with physical we found an association so we could take out liability insurance let's go back you know it allows us to sign proper contracts. for the

global climate strike in may we were at the movement within survive the summer in germany malevolent activities all those worries were invalid but we felt we had to do something something exciting that would unify the movement and raise its profile in the media. we decided to organize congress the brought everyone together and demonstrated the combined force of the movement by the power he's a very good orator. 2 the fridays for future movement is active in over 100 countries. it's also expanded into eastern european countries. 2 and poland around $700.00 young activists are taking part in a summer camp halfway between post and warsaw. this is the kind of. all the organizations and movements that are here phones in just

a short space of time that. we can trash. we've got extinction rebellion which now exist all over europe is what it was they. a school strike which i belong to and for future poland and these guards with come for climate action. the event to take us to. 17 year old antonio. goes to school in warsaw he's been organizing the school strikes in the polish capital for nearly a year and poland the issue of climate change doesn't get much attention. at the jug a few at school. i learnt a bit about the climate works and how it's changing. there's not much discussion in the polish media. to differentiate school and i read

articles in french in english and spanish. i only learned about the terrible state of the climate from the foreign media. poland's populist right wing government only recently knowledge that human activity is a key driver of climate change. only 15 members of the polish chapter of friday's for future are attending the camp many are put off by the fact the event is being closely monitored by police. and the member of the. status that i was on early morning juicy and it was really funny it's the best time because the cops come along and 5 as though. they look to the left to the right and drive past you in this really the monstrous of way. the place is crawling with them. so i know what we're going to do tomorrow that's. a lot it's going to be hard to miss on the beach and much of it cesc. the activists are planning

a protest tomorrow the demonstration has been officially registered with the authorities but another secret protest is also scheduled. cameras aren't allowed at this meeting. the police are out in full force when the protesters start gathering the next day. you know if i look at that they're heading for the town of conan an hour's drive away. it's close to an open pit lignite mine. up there fell there's lots of coal mining in poland. this here is the worst kind. of mining. it's highly toxic but it's just that things are he said the other

problem is that many mines in poland like a lot to take it and emits a lot of pollutants over there is the mine. 84 percent of poland's electricity comes from fossil fuels such as cold and late night and just 14 percent from renewable energies and comparison 50 percent of electricity in germany is generated from fossil fuels 33 percent from renewable energies and 12 percent from nuclear power and france only 10 percent is derived from fossil fuels 18 percent from renewable energies and 72 percent from nuclear energy. has got just then so very good oh oh oh oh i just got to that so i'm going to blow that has got to that's our bank of 00000200 activists are taking part in the demonstration near conan. many reporters are also here.

tony and his friends with friday's for future are among the protesters. the police don't intervene. that that yeah. they're bad out there were. no no. no sure. that's the protesters approach the mine the tensions rise. the police. worried that the activists will try to break through the police barrier. of the striking of the chief read this for future along. the ground rule for fridays for future in poland as an all or activity or legal. means that this was even in terms of civil disobedience we stick to what's legal. we believe that way we'll have the biggest

reach and the best chances of actually changing things in poland yes this. whole movement shares this principle that with this. it's how much we don't break the rules. on the ship and. their official demonstration stops outside the mine. on the other side the illegal one organized by the camp for climate action and extinction rebellion breaks through the police line. in poland and elsewhere the activists are far from sure that they can really bring about change. a lot of missing is in a way you feel powerless but when you look over there and see how many people have gathered then you realize we might be in with a chance it's the election it's we're trying to see in that moment that all these great people have come together but of course when you look at this vast area of protests can feel in significance what's astounding just absolute bullshit on that

. back in dortmund it's friday strike day. the 1400 activists who come to dortmund from all over germany have divided up into groups. they don't want to disrupt public transport. if i was. i the german wing of the movement has very specific demands the activists want germany to phase out coal by 2030 and to have made a 100 percent switch to renewable energy by 2035 was i

thought i. do not i want to start by saying i'm here even though it's school holidays and to be honest i wouldn't mind taking a vacation. but we can't afford to waste time even though the politicians have all taken vacations. was the they do. if the demonstrations had been held on saturdays or sundays no one would have paid them any attention there would have just been a bunch of kids demonstrating in germany or wherever and no t.v. station would have bothered reporting it. but because they're missing school people are paying attention that's how it works that's on the border. this is what i was was. the. i.

i. as soon as the demonstrations over lena and john luka head to the station. lena is spending the summer into railing from one climate camp to another. the next is an lozano. plane a helped organize it. and some think you know about the school strikes his kids at school. so are we i don't live there on fridays aren't day i'm not against them but in my opinion the strike should be held at the weekend and not during school hours school is important so let's face it. it's not necessary that. school is used as leverage against us we're striking to

demand something be done i mean this out of sight but if you don't go to school you're messing up your future going to school is also doing something for your future. you know just so that future we supposedly won't have if we don't go to school is threatened anyway by climate change. nonsense this country it's not nonsense to look at the scientific studies you'll realize pretty quickly that it's not nonsense commissionaire the country must come of it and how will you be able to get any qualifications if you don't go to school. in this in 2 hours on a friday isn't the big deal about finance your absences will be noted on your report card i don't care you don't care it doesn't matter it doesn't matter if you're absences are noted on your report card sorry i can't talk about this and all the chips this is a must like think feel i feel like i've learned so much from the climate strikes that talk about organizing and about science and chaffed and i was so her argument

doesn't work for me yeah i finished. yeah yeah i feel the climate strikes me loads of life skills. more than a lens and 12 years of school. i'm sure many shows. and loads on $400.00 young environmental activists are attending the smile for future conference their aim is to lay out their demands in a formal fridays for future declaration. a message for governments and political. institutions. the congress is being held and the university of laws on. the plane is in a work group with students from 6 countries to their formulating the movement's strategic goals these will be included in the declaration here everything that's in here as a declaration that we took of how we were in the original right so we're

talking about 2 different things because you're talking about having broken group identity in the declaration and i don't agree and that great service to create the sentences international structure of product i would refer to the working group but then to do that's one of the options we could also do is create to go so what international structure documents at one point i don't know. just says but there are delegations from 38 countries. from the outset the movement has had the support of respected climate experts one of them is john pascal fund. vice chair of the intergovernmental panel on climate change from 2008 to 2015. thank you we have

many things in common. became a planet scientists and became very involved in i.p.c.c. the integrity. change which presented its. special reports this morning. these young people are very well informed on the climate crisis more so than political decision makers and the general public and it came as a surprise to me my marriage the climate change conference in qatar and i could see she was able to give very detailed answers to scientific questions no politician can do that she's a read the literature of the faith a lot a lot of people are familiar with the i.p.c.c. reports. thank you for what you have done thank you for what's you doing i would like to thank great. was she is not that leader. she doesn't want to be

a leader but she launched this trip and she still gets. every moment is the international. news for you and she has become a. gratitude the star of the fridays for future movement is also here she sits with the other participants. all the movement is nonhierarchical and democratic and every vote counts equally. on my lane presents the results of her work group. in the declaration values and principles that too much so that but we want that book live on to other people know about it said. the participants are seeking consensus on all the decisions the 1st vote is on the introduction to the declaration of the protocols

a collapse of our society and ecosystems is in the horizon and son is really. what happens in the next month and years in the future of humankind elected extinction is a possible outcome. of this to clear ration of intent. to those who agree wave their hands. oh position. i'm just saying this we incur this if we are able to make some just grace and changes that's what we want to do just don't get angry and. i don't think anybody's. but of course the word you can be changed in the whole he can be changed and you move all in change so is there any

strong opposition against this proposal. good it was a. thank. you. the next day the students demonstrated lows on. the school strikes polarize opinion . which may well be why they've succeeded in sparking debate about climate protection in many countries. plain as younger sister and her mother are also taking part today. it must be so that i would say that i smell the smell. so good of adventurers global perspectives stand together it serves me best known

we're standing with. you not do you think you'll see it feel the same it does a lot herself she's very independent she doesn't always give us a choice and that's when the discussion started and they're not always polite or constructive. sometimes i think the climate strikes have the last word and i don't think that can be difficult and that in the morning with these people this. couple of times i've called her teacher and asked is it really all right as far as her schooling is concerned because. he told me he'd let me know if it started to become an issue for me to. be in here that. this person that is active the guys i'd like to keep doing this is much as possible it has priority over school i mean this really. you know if in fact what you're

running out of time if it's nighttime i mean we need to see a reduction in emissions by 2020. i mean we're. i'm september 20th in berlin. global strike today. is in a hurry. i. miss him so i have to go back on stage and prepare what i'm going to say a minister must come and i think this is. the student movement also has crossed generational support. and said yes we've been complaining for years that young people are a political but now they're driving change we need the courage and ambition mood and the i'm the it's you and i did you don't like it and so you know.

wrote. 23 year old student louise annoyed about the best known activists in the german fridays for future movement as one of the co organizers of the demonstration in berlin. yes we're here and we're loud because you're stealing our future. yes yes. like all the young activists here louisa has devoted her summer holiday to the movement. yes i've got that yes yes you bet that the world is changing rapidly we're witnessing things shift all the time not just the climate but also questions of justice about what we can expect from economic systems in

democracies and then just see that it goes hand in hand with the huge push for emancipation that the climate justice movement is giving rise to all this must be built. yes listen to me today we've made history 270000 people demonstrated in berlin today. we broke the record in germany this is the biggest protest in german history. and yet i find if we take that c.n.n. got my son 200 and let it go then i want to see politicians taking action if it comes when i think about my future on this planet i can't not do something to stand on my own i can't let my future go down the drain and i can't let that happen ceci cases. around the world over 4000000 people took to the streets and the movement is growing these young activists will soon be eligible to vote. can't afford to ignore

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