come to germany. i got my license to work as a swimming instructor here and now our 2 children 100 votes just one of us toughest . what's your story take part cherish on info migrants dot net. yes we want to survive on this planet if we don't say that now it'll 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 start of the movement sailed across the atlantic to take her message to the u.s. but not everyone's on board by my side in my opinion they should strike at the

weekend not 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. the farm cut 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. it's a nice place to put it. they're

on their way to the station like all the young environmental activists in the movement they make a point of never flying 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 there's a chance 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 but 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 in any of it it's a very we've made a big effort to be as professional as possible and to high think we're doing very well we all have bracelets we've set everything up. make sure that everyone knows what their job is and that they do it properly ma. says it's sometimes i'm just. that's just the press use of professor name 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. olding 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 its name is guess the new you have just read that it was 22 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 free it's not worth anything the atmosphere 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 it 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 and the main issue schmidt says is raising awareness. i don't see this a lot of the statistics floating around are made up so it's important that the issues in the background are properly understood to. try to teach. the students want solutions that work and they want them now. they ask

a lot of questions lina is interested in the international context you. can mandate 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 a. given shows if 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 or he's huge step so we can't force you to act it's not for us to persuade him that it's worth it. it's not. the stuff can i say it is what other countries do is not the issue that switzerland germany whatever have a responsibility. saying i will only do it if you do it is just childish this and fast came this sent us. other countries are always being used as an excuse

. 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 lifts the fridays for future activists refused to compromise in their demands so far the movement has been a loose collection of disparate groups the head of the summer congress 18 year old jaco blasdell founded the organization organize future which manages the events budget of $200000.00 euros made up of participant contributions and donations. as one can no individual can be liable for the vent involving 1400 people but if i end up with physical we found the 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 the movement within survive the summer in germany back to those worries weren't followed but we felt we had to do something

with something excite. that would unify the movement and raise its profile in the media. we decided to organize congress the brought everyone together and demonstrate the combined force of the movement by the poet is a very good orator of. the fridays for future movement is active in over $100.00 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. but as a kind of compassion we've got extinction rebellion which now exist all over europe

is what i was thinking about that school strike which i belong to and for future poland and these guys and so i would come for climate action arguments the event yes i was lucky not to go to that is it's how it's over the. 17 year old antonia vision esky michelle 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. from going after i did juggle field school. i learnt a bit about the climate and how it works and how it's changing. so there's not much discussion in the polish media. your also did french at school and i read articles in french in english and spanish for francisco but i guess i only learnt about the terrible state of the climate from the foreign media at the very divided. 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. she said that from the reports the. status that i was on early morning juicy and it was really funny is 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. don't know what we're going to do tomorrow. it's going to be arctic mist on the hegemon much of a chest. 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're going to find. that they're heading for the town of coney an hour's drive away it's close to an open pit lignite mine. that. there's lots of coal mining in poland and. this here is the worst kind. lignite mining. it's highly toxic that's. another problem is that many mines in poland are to love to take it and emit a lot of pollutants over there is the mind. made. 4 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 to that very good oh oh oh oh just got to that i'm going to blow that is got to that they're going to have 00000200 activists are taking part in the demonstration you're calling. 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 good yes well. that bad that you. have ever heard of a. nurse or nun that. has the protesters approach the mine the tensions rise. the police are worried that the activists will try to break through the police barrier. the striking of which is you for this for future problems. around room for fridays for future in poland is that all or activity or legal. 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 opponent yes this. whole movement shares this principle.

those. that's how most of all we don't break the rules. and then those 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 lines. 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 elections 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 significant senses than just absolute bullshit on the.

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. 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. but i think it's a close. even if not i want to start by saying i'm here even though it's school

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

as soon as the demonstrations over laina and head to the station. plain as spending the summer interrail ing from one climate camp to another. the next is an lozano. laina helped organize it. and some think you know about the school strikes kids at school. so are we i don't live there on fridays aren't they 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 was. the steps necessary to school is used as leverage against us we're striking to demand something be done that's i miss that doesn't say that 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 and look at the scientific studies you'll realise pretty quickly that it's not nonsense commissionaire this country must come of it and how will you be able to get any qualifications if you don't go to school shows like that missing 2 hours on a friday isn't a big deal how about your absences will be noted on your report card i don't care if you don't care that's doesn't matter that's not it doesn't matter if you're absences are noted on your report card sorry i can't talk about this and all the good chaps feel. like fans feel like i've learned so much from the climate strikes that talk about organizing and about science and staffed and i was so her argument doesn't work for me yeah finish tests i don't mind yeah yeah i feel

the climate strikes have taught me loads of life skills that's. what i learned and 12 years of school since most young children it shows up. 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. there formulating the movement's strategic goals these will be included in the declaration here everything that's in here that's a bit clearer a show. of how we were in the region 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 on that so it makes for a service to create 3 sentences for natural selection of particular would refer to the book to go but then to do that's one of the options we could also do is create to go so what international structure documents i want i don't see the. list that 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 fun. vice chair of the intergovernmental panel on climate change from 2008 to 2015. thank. became a climate scientist and became very involved in i.p.c.c. the integrity. and change which presented its. special reports this

morning and. these young people are very well informed on the climate crisis more so than political decision makers and the general public but it came as a surprise to me my marriage to 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 or read the literature of the faith a lot a lot of young people are familiar with the i.p.c.c. reports. thank you for what's your way of thank you for what you are doing i would like to thank great. teacher. i know she's not that leader. she doesn't want to be a leader but she longs to strike and she sees it spies every moment is the international. news future has become.

the star of the fridays for future movement is also here she sits with the other participants. the movement is nonhierarchical and democratic and every vote counts equally. laid out presents the results of her work group. in a declaration day i was principally to much so that but we bought that book live on 10 other people know about it said. the participants are seeking consensus on all the decisions of the 1st vote is on the introduction to the declaration of the old because of or a society in ecosystems is on the horizon is really about what happens in the next month or the years in the future of humankind who lead to

extinction is a possible outcome a group of this is the clear asian intent. those who agree wave their hands. oh visitation. i'm just saying this will be a prisoner of this if we are able to make some just grace and changes that's what we want to do just that you don't get angry and. i don't think anybody's. but of course the word you can be changed in the whole can be changed and you move probably change still is there any strong position against this proposal.

good it was a. thank you. the next day the students demonstrate unloads 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 this must be so that we know that you know the cell. phones live on the events where is global perspectives stand together and serves you best known we're standing with. you not do you think you'll see a few saying it does a lot herself she's very independent she doesn't always give us a choice that's when the discussion started and they're not always polite or

constructive. the room and sometimes i think the climate strikes have the last word and i don't know that can be difficult and that in the morning with these people this much time you can't continue to move in a couple of times i've called her teacher and asked since you isn't really all right as far as her schooling is concerned. me truly on so he told me he 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. in this with. you know if in the segment you're running out of time it is mid-sized time in the we need to see a reduction in emissions by 2020.

i remember you were on. i'm september 20th in berlin. global strike today. is in a hurry. i got 5. because evidence 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 beats you want to do you don't like that and so you know. the road.

23 year old student louise annoyed about the best known activist 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 but. 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 and democracies and that have seen that and it goes hand in hand with the huge push for emancipation. and the climate justice movement is giving rise to all this must be

evil. yes listen to me today we've made history 270000 people demonstrated in berlin today. we broke the record in germany and this is the biggest protest in german history. and yet i find it pretty just see you next time i sense a hand in that is over and i want to see politicians taking action to help us to face time is when i think about my future on this planet i can't not do something for sandeman i can't let my future go down the drain i can't let that happen says he faces. 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 them.

and justice and freedom the 1st words of the german national anthem and the 3 central values that form the foundation of this country. i haif kinds of time and freedom can only flourish if everybody holds it dear leader lives a life of freedom and defends it before a high school friend who was part of our germany in 15 minutes on d w. soon after the fall of the berlin wall nov 9th on d. w. . the banks.

played played. this is the w. news live from berlin turning a spotlight on the past germany begins a week of celebrations to mark the fall of the berlin wall 3 decades ago with events taking place across the capital we asked what the lessons are for today. also coming up violence flares again and she lay as thousands of people take to the streets of the capital santiago to demand an economic inequality.