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How the youth climate movement is influencing the green recovery from COVID-19

World leaders have rightly seized on the pandemic as a chance to build more sustainable economies. What’s missing though, are the loud and inconvenient voices from the streets, writes Jens Marquardt in a new article in The Conversation.

Photocredit: EPA-EFE/Hayoung Jeon/The Conversation
Photocredit: EPA-EFE/Hayoung Jeon/The Conversation

The article is published on October 21 and written by Jens Marquardt, Postdoctoral Researcher in Environmental Social Science at the Department of Political Science at Stockholm University.
He writes:
“Fridays for Future started as a lone protest outside the Swedish parliament by Greta Thunberg in August 2018, but it has quickly grown into a global movement. The pandemic forced the school climate strikes to move online, largely shifting the burgeoning youth movement from the public eye. Yet, the vibrant protests that catapulted climate change to the political fore are actually needed now more than ever.”


Read the article published in The Conversation: https://theconversation.com/how-the-youth-climate-movement-is-influencing-the-green-recovery-from-covid-19-147519


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More articles in The Conversation by researchers at Stockholm University: https://theconversation.com/institutions/stockholm-university-1019

 

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