#alternate Edit this page Wikipedia (en) Climate movement From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia -- Countries by Climate change performance Index The climate movement is the collective of nongovernmental organizations engaged in activism related to the issues of climate change. It is a subset of the broader environmental movement, but some regard it as a new social movement itself given its scope, strength, and activities. [ ] -- + 2.4 School strikes for climate + 2.5 2019 Global Climate Strike * 3 Roles of other movements * 4 Methods * 5 Targeting of activists -- History[edit] The climate movement has rapidly evolved in the first decades of the 21st century, starting as one of the many causes of the environmental movement. Activism related to climate change began in the 1990s, when major -- climate, mainly in the UNFCCC framework. In the 2000s several climate-specific organizations were founded, such as 350.org, Energy Action Coalition, and the Global Call for Climate Action. Mobilization for Copenhagen 2009[edit] The 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen was the first UNFCCC summit in which the climate movement started showing its mobilization power at a large scale. Between 40,000 and 100,000 people attended a march in Copenhagen on December 12 calling for a global -- People's Climate March (2017) The People's Climate March 2014, brought together hundreds of thousands of people for strong action on climate change. The climate movement convened its largest single event on 21 September 2014, when it mobilized 400,000 activists in New York during the People’s Climate March (plus several thousand more in other cities), organized by the People's Climate Movement, to demand climate action from the global leaders gathered for the 2014 UN Climate Summit.^[3]^[4] -- Fossil fuel divestment or fossil fuel divestment and investment in climate solutions is an attempt to reduce climate change by exerting social, political, and economic pressure for the institutional divestment of assets including stocks, bonds, and other financial instruments connected to companies involved in extracting fossil fuels. -- clean energy and communities most impacted by climate change.^[6] By 2015, fossil fuel divestment was reportedly the fastest growing divestment movement in history.^[7] In April 2020, a total of 1,192 institutions and over 58,000 individuals representing $14 trillion in assets worldwide had begun or committed to a divestment from fossil -- Main article: The Climate Mobilization Since 2014, growing portions of the climate movement, especially in the United States have been organizing for an international economic response to climate change on the scale of the mobilization of the -- known variously as Fridays for Future (FFF), Youth for Climate, Climate Strike/Climatestrike [sic] or Youth Strike for Climate, is an international movement of school students (in many countries also university students) who skip classes, mainly on Fridays, to participate in demonstrations to demand action from political and economical leaders, to limit climate disaster, and for the fossil fuel industry to transition to renewable energy. Most regional branches of the movement see themselves also as a part of the Global Climate Justice Movement. The climate movement is in general very democratic and grassroots organized. -- The September 2019 climate strikes, also known as the Global Week for Future, were a series of international strikes and protests to demand action be taken to address climate change, which took place from 20–27 September. The strikes' key dates were 20 September, which was three days before the United Nations Climate Summit, and 27 September.^[25]^[26] The protests took place across 4,500 locations in 150 countries.^[27]^[28] The event is a part of the school strike for climate movement, inspired by Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg.^[29]^[30] The Guardian reported that roughly 6 million people participated in the events,^[31] whilst 350.org—a group that organised -- several federal party leaders, joined the march in Montreal.^[46] Roles of other movements[edit] The climate movement is closely connected to other parts of the environmental movement, in particular groups aiming for a sustainable society and sustainable energy. Also, the faith community has been active in the climate movement, both at an interfaith level (such as in Our Voices) and at the specific level of each denomination (such as the Global Catholic Climate Movement). With this movement, new youth international organizations have emerged to join the climate change movement such as Fridays for Future^[47] or Extinction Rebellion.^[48] Methods[edit] -- See also[edit] * Business action on climate change * Environmental movement * Ecological movement * Environmental racism * List of environmental protests -- October 2009. 3. ^ Alter, Charlotte (September 21, 2014). "Hundreds of Thousands Converge on New York to Demand Climate-Change Action". New York: time.com. Retrieved December 30, 2014. 4. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-10-14. -- 6. ^ Gibson, Dylan; Duram, Leslie. "Shifting Discourse on Climate and Sustainability: Key Characteristics of the Higher Education Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement". Retrieved 5 December 2020. 7. ^ "Fossil fuel divestment: a brief history". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 March 2015. -- 17. ^ Barclay, Eliza (15 March 2019). "Photos: kids in 123 countries went on strike to protect the climate". Retrieved 16 March 2019. 18. ^ "'We're one, we're back': Pupils renew world climate action strike". Al Jazeera. 24 May 2019. Archived from the original on 24 May 2019. Retrieved 24 May 2019. -- ^ Walls, Jason (27 September 2019). "Climate change march: Thousands of schoolkids' action inspired by Greta Thunberg". New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 27 September 2019. -- doi:10.14712/18023061.563. ISSN 1802-3061. ^ Holdo, Markus. "Sincerity as Strategy: Green Movements and the Problem of Reconciling Deliberative and Instrumental". Environmental Politics. 28 (4). doi:10.1080/09644016.2018.1457294. -- Environmental Activists in Domestic Terror Investigations: Protesters Were Characterized as a Threat to National Security in What One Calls an Attempt to Criminalize their Actions" ^ The Guardian, 11 June 2020, "Hack-for-Hire Group Targeted Climate -- * A coloured voting box.svg Politics portal * Change in Average Temperature.svg Global warming portal * Social sciences.svg Society portal Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Climate_movement&oldid=9950 69844"