Five days for Climate Justice in Milan
"Climate policies just blah blah blah blah"
Greta Thunberg is contributing to the events that have been taking place since Tuesday 28 September in the Lombard capital, which for five days becomes the ‘climate capital’, in view of Pre-Cop26, the UN summit hosted in Milan until Saturday 2 October, in preparation for the Conference of the Parties on climate change scheduled for November in Glasgow.
The five days will culminate in two final marches, the Students’ Strike on 1 October and the March for Climate Justice on 2 October at 3pm, both starting from Largo Cairoli.
The official pre-Cop26 programme will for the first time involve 400 young delegates from all countries to take part in the climate debate. However, the movements have expressed doubts about it, as it is unlikely to have a bearing on the final decisions of the 26th Climate Summit.
THE ECOLOGICAL TRANSITION IS NOT... FICTION
Milan prepared for the five days 2021 with the global climate strike on Friday 24 September.
Direct participation in the climate debate is one of the main objectives of the environmental movements, even if young people fear that their appeals will once again fall on deaf ears.
Greta Thunberg arrived at the meeting together with the young activists and said: “I don’t expect much from the summit, a lot of talk like other meetings“.
Greta emphasised that the ecological transition must lead to climate justice: “Climate justice is the term used to indicate that global warming is an ethical and political issue and not purely an environmental or climate issue. This is done by linking the effects of climate change to concepts of justice, particularly environmental justice and social justice, and examining issues such as equality, human rights, collective rights and historical responsibility for climate change.
The fundamental issue of climate justice is that those who suffer the most severe consequences of climate change are those who contributed the least to creating it“ (Source: Wikipedia).
In a video message, Pope Francis also joins the chorus of young people, encouraging them to challenge adults: