PHOTO PACKAGE: World Climate Day

September 25, 2020

Young people rallied across the world on Friday September 25, 2020, striking for climate change action, in their first global action during the coronavirus pandemic.

Demonstrations were planned in more than 3,100 locations, with Australia, Japan and South Korea among the first to kick off - though with pandemic-related curbs limiting the size of gatherings, much of the action shifted online.

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1 Global Climate Strike near Kyiv City State Administration, on September 25, 2020.

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg (C) takes part in a Fridays For Future protest in front of the Swedish Parliament (Riksdagen) in Stockholm on September 25, 2020. She said in a tweet on Thursday that the strikers will "be back next week, next month and next year. For as long as it takes." — 2 Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg (C) takes part in a Fridays For Future protest in front of the Swedish Parliament (Riksdagen) in Stockholm on September 25, 2020.

She said in a tweet on Thursday that the strikers will "be back next week, next month and next year. For as long as it takes."

3 Demonstrators stand and sit along the 17th June street in front of the Brandenburg Gate during a demonstration of the climate activists from the "Fridays for Future" movement, on September 25, 2020, in Berlin.

4 Women gesture as Fridays for Future activists protest calling for a "Global Day of Climate Action" in Warsaw, Poland, September 25, 2020.

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PHOTO PACKAGE: World Climate Day