thing all right rhonda shreyas a professor of environmental and climate policy at the technical university of munich thank you very much for joining us on. q. . well as we heard politicians are increasingly taking note of these grassroots movements constance in southern germany became the first in the country to declare a climate emergency and to follow similar moves in canada britain and switzerland in consonance the local fridays for future demonstrations had a big role to play in moving climate change to the top of the agenda. will strike until you act since february these students in konstanz had been on strike to demand the declaration of a climate emergency yesterday that happened the city council said it would put climate issues before political decisions overdue said the students who held their first press conference today. as i am a bit long going on is not enough is being done it's urgent but much more should happen in constance's a rather prosperous city a city with no money fracturing we actually have the ideal conditions to be a pioneer but that's not where we are yes so something needs