'Yesterday, millions of people across the globe marched and demanded real climate action,' Thunberg said at the first UN Youth Climate Summit.
, marching through the streets of New York. Around the world, there were many more in her orbit, demanding climate action.BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images
"Yesterday, millions of people across the globe marched and demanded real climate action — especially young people," Thunberg said Saturday at the United Nations in New York, where hundreds of young people from nations around the world were gathering at the first UN Youth Climate Summit."We showed that we are united, and that we young people are unstoppable."
Thunberg kept her remarks brief, letting young climate activists from Kenya, Fiji, and Argentina take the mic, in a morning listening session with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. The youth climate session comes just two days before the grown-ups come to the UN on Monday for the General Assembly's Climate Change Summit, where Thunberg is expected to deliver lengthier remarks.
Komal Karishma Kumar, a young climate activist from Fiji who was on stage with Thunberg Saturday, called on world leaders"to not doubt the science" and asked"some" to"come back to the Paris agreement," which calls for European countries to
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