Climate activists look to 2021 to rebound from pandemic

The Climate Clock is pictured during a protest ahead of Earth Day in New York. — Reuters

STOPPED in their tracks by the pandemic, citizens around the world are once again bracing to mobilise for the planet in a year marked by several major international summits on climate and biodiversity.

In 2019, millions of people, led by student and youth organisations, flooded the world’s streets to demand that governments act to stave off the worst effects of global warming.