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People's Climate March
People's Climate March may refer to: * 2014 People's Climate March, an activist event in New York City and elsewhere * 2017 People's Climate March, a protest in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere See also * Global Climate March The Global Climate March took place in various cities around the world on 29 November 2015, the day before the opening of the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference. The march was organized by a huge coalition of climate groups and global ac ..., 2015 * List of environmental protests {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 People's Climate March
The People's Climate March (PCM) was a large-scale activist event orchestrated by the People's Climate Movement to advocate global action against climate change, which took place on Sunday, September 21, 2014, in New York City, along with a series of companion actions worldwide, many of which also took the name People's Climate March. With an estimated 311,000 participants, the New York event was the largest climate change march in history. Described as "an invitation to change everything," the march was called in May 2014 by the global advocacy human rights group Avaaz and 350.org, the environmental organization founded by writer/activist Bill McKibben, and it was endorsed by "over 1,500 organizations, including many international and national unions, churches, schools and community and environmental justice organizations." It was conceived as a response to (but ''not'' a protest against) the scheduled U.N. Climate Summit of world leaders to take place in New York City two da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 People's Climate March
The People's Climate March was a protest which took place on Washington, D.C.'s National Mall, and among 1 million locations throughout the United States, and locations outside the U.S., on April 29, 2017. The organizers, the People's Climate Movement, announced the demonstration in January 2017 to protest the environmental policies of then-U.S. President Donald Trump and his administration. The protests were held at the end of his first 100 days as president, during stormy weather across the U.S. There were an estimated 200,000 participating in the D.C. march. Locations across the United States The event in Augusta, Maine was organized by the Natural Resources Council of Maine and took place outside the Maine State House. Dylan Voorhees, director of the organization's Climate and Clean Energy Project, spoke at the rally. The event in Boston was organized by Boston People's Climate Mobilization, specifically by Lisa Young of the Better Future Project in Cambridge, Massachuse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Global Climate March
The Global Climate March took place in various cities around the world on 29 November 2015, the day before the opening of the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference. The march was organized by a huge coalition of climate groups and global activists (such as Avaaz and the international environmental organization 350.org), and involved more than 2,000 events around the globe, in 175 different countries. An estimated number of 785,000 people took part at the marches. On 30 November, the first day of the conference, a "Climate strike" was organised by students in over 100 countries; over 50000 people participate. Follow-on marches scheduled in 2017 included the March for Science on 22 April 2017) and the People's Climate Mobilization scheduled 29 April 2017. The march Partially inspired by the People's Climate March held in 2014, the Global Climate March did not have a main event, but had extended all over Europe, Oceania, North America, South America, Africa and Asia. The mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
