'Fridays for Future' activists in Bern demand climate strike ahead of COP26


  • World
  • Friday, 22 Oct 2021

Protestors take part in the Global Climate Strike of the movement Fridays for Future in front of the Bundeshaus, the seat of the Swiss federal parliament at the Bundesplatz square in Bern, Switzerland October 22, 2021. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

BERN (Reuters) - Banner-waving climate activists rallied outside the Swiss parliament on Friday in support of a Global Climate Strike that youth movement Fridays for Future had called for ahead of the UN climate summit COP26.

Protesters in Bern included young children and elderly people with banners reading "climate grandparents" and the words "oil, gas, coal" crossed out.

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