Teenage activist Greta Thunberg, who inspired a "flight-shaming" movement against air travel, is spearheading a climate change strike on Friday in Montreal where U.N. aviation leaders are gathering to debate plane emission targets. Both Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Green Party
1 / 3FILE PHOTO: Swedish activist Greta Thunberg participates in a youth climate change protest in front of the United Nations Headquarters in ManhattanBy Allison Lampert
Both Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Green Party chief Elizabeth May will also be joining in the march, while New Democrat leader Jagmeet Singh will be in one on the west coast. Conservative leader Andrew Scheer is not participating. Last month, Thunberg sailed across the Atlantic to the United States from Britain in a zero-carbon emissions boat to protest air travel emissions, and she denounced world leaders earlier this week for failing to tackle climate change.
The Montreal protest comes as the International Civil Aviation Organization is debating ways to minimize the sector's impact on the environment at its triennial assembly, which runs until Oct. 4 in the Canadian city. In 2016, ICAO brokered the first global industrial climate initiative with a medium-term scheme to help airlines avoid adding to their net emissions from 2020.
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