(20 Sep 2024)
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New York – 20 September 2024
1. Wide of protest on bridge
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Hilda Flavia Nakabuye, Uganda Fridays for Future founder:
"The plan for the day is to raise our voices to make sure that leaders, policy makers, decision makers hear us, and probably they could act, take prompt actions right now."
3. Various of protesters marching
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Hilda Flavia Nakabuye, Uganda Fridays for Future founder:
"I am participating today because I am representing my community that is bearing the brunt of the climate crisis. My country, Uganda, is yet to host the 1,443 kilometer long crude oil pipeline."
5. Various of protesters marching on bridge
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Hilda Flavia Nakabuye, Uganda Fridays for Future founder:
"We hope that the government and the financial sector make polluters pay for the damage that they have caused to our environment. And with that, we hope that this taxes they get from these people will be used to fund or raise more funds for the loss and damage fund that is so much needed by frontline communities to adapt to climate change."
7. Various of protesters gathering and marching
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Hilda Flavia Nakabuye, Uganda Fridays for Future founder:
"The importance of being part of the youth climate justice movement is to get our voices heard. For so long, youth have been left on the sidelines. But we are present. We can see and we need a clear future. And that is why we are coming up organizing, mobilizing in our hundreds and thousands to remind leaders about their roles, their responsibility. They are not taking on the responsibility. So basically, someone has to do that and we are here to remind them of that responsibility that they have to humanity."
9. Wide of protesters marching
STORYLINE:
Six years after a teenage Greta Thunberg walked out of school in a solitary climate protest outside of the Swedish parliament, people around a warming globe marched in youth-led protest, saying their voices are being heard, but aren’t being acted on enough.
Emissions of heat-trapping gases and temperatures have been rising and oil and gas drilling hasn’t been stopping even as the September protests kicking off major weeklong climate events in New York City have become annual events. This year they come days before the United Nations’ convenes two special summits, one concentrating on sea level rise and the other on the future.
The young people who organized these marches with Fridays for Future said there is frustration with inaction but also hope. People marched in Berlin, Rio de Janeiro, New Delhi and elsewhere, but the focus often is in New York City because of Climate Week NYC. Diplomats, business leaders and activists are concentrating their discussions on the money end of fighting climate change — something not lost on protesters.
“We hope that the government and the financial sector make polluters pay for the damage that they have imposed on our environment,” said Uganda Fridays for Future founder Hilda Flavia Nakabuye, who was among a few hundred marching in New York Friday, a far cry from the tens of thousands that protested in a multi-group mega-rally in 2023.
Nakabuye said she was in New York to represent Uganda “that is bearing the brunt of the climate crisis.”
In the past five years, clean energy sources have grown twice as fast as fossil fuels, with both solar and wind individually growing faster than fossil fuel-based electricity, according to the IEA.
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