Vancouver rally demands action on climate crisis
Posted September 15, 2023 9:41 am.
Last Updated September 17, 2023 3:24 pm.
Climate rallies are taking place in a number of B.C. cities Friday as part of global protests demanding action on the climate crisis.
A rally and march in Vancouver began at city hall at 1:30 p.m. The protest is making its way through the city, with the end point the Vancouver Art Gallery.
David Suzuki Foundation Executive Director Severn Cullis-Suzuki is set to address the crowd when they arrive at the gallery. David Suzuki himself was in Victoria for the rally on the lawn of the provincial legislature.
The demonstrators are joining tens of thousands of climate activists around the world in calling for an end to the burning of planet-warming fossil fuels as Earth suffers from dramatic weather extremes.
The global strike is driven by several mostly youth-led local and global climate groups and organizations, including Greta Thunberg’s Fridays for Future movement. Last week, the United Nations warned that countries are way off track to limit warming as agreed in 2015 in Paris to stop the worst effects of climate change.
Rallies took place in hundreds of cities in dozens of countries Friday, with plans for more to continue throughout the weekend, including in Maple Ridge Sunday outside city hall starting at 8 a.m.
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