Fridays for Future activists have launched climate change protests in Germany and other countries.

Key facts

• About 280,000 people in over 270 cities and towns across Germany are taking part in demonstrations as part of the Fridays for Future movement.
• One of the biggest rallies took place in Berlin, where over 36,000 people gathered to conduct climate demonstrations.
• These protesters are calling for the stopping of global warming and demanding the German government to set up a 100 billion euro funding to expand renewable energy use.
• They are also demanding the cancellation of financial and climate debts to developing countries.
• These protests were organized 6 weeks before the start of the UN Climate Summit (COP27), which is set to take place in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.
• Countries like Italy, South Korea, the United States and the Democratic Republic of Congo have also witnessed similar protests.