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Climate movement

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Greta Thunberg

The climate movement refers to non-governmental organisations engaged in activism related to climate change. Many social media campaigns are running to encourage people to take a stance and pressurise governments across the world into doing more to halt the rate of global warming and the damage done to the environment.

In recent years, teenager Greta Thunberg has led the worldwide campaign Fridays for Future to protest against the lack of action on what activists have termed 鈥榯he climate crisis鈥.

The 2021 campaign is being backed by UN Climate Change and the . This campaign is striving for a strong outcome from the UN Climate Change Conference COP26 in Glasgow in October 2021.

Warming Stripes for 1850-2020 illustrating global warming
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Warming Stripes for 1850-2020 illustrating global warming. Courtesy of Professor Ed Hawkins, University of Reading.

This diagram shows how the average temperature of the Earth has changed between 1850 and 2020. Notice the long-term temperature trends in recent years have been much warmer.

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