In a groundbreaking move, Quebec Premier François Legault announced the province will "definitively renounce the extraction of hydrocarbons on its territory" during a speech Tuesday.
"Thirty years of blah, blah, blah," Greta Thunberg said in a speech Tuesday. "Net zero by 2025. By 2050! This is all we hear from our leaders. Words that sound great, but so far have led to no action. Our hopes and dreams drowned in their empty words and promises."
Youth activists in major cities in Ghana, Kenya, Benin, Nigeria, Uganda, Togo, and the Democratic Republic of Congo staged protests, delivered petitions to leaders, and dropped banners protesting climate change.
Seven late night comedy hosts devoted a portion of each of their shows on Wednesday evening to discussing climate change as part of a coordinated effort to raise awareness about the looming crisis.
“We don't need more research or more new technologies. We need to rapidly deploy what we already know," said former Ontario Environment Minister Glen Murray.