Vancouver teens stage ‘funeral for our future’ calling for climate change action
Vancouver teenagers laid on the steps of a federal government building Saturday while staging a “funeral for our future” over a lack of action on climate change.
More than a dozen members of the Sustainabiliteens, a youth climate activist group, held the funeral to mourn the stalled talks at COP25, a United Nations climate conference in Madrid.
The two-week conference was at risk of ending late Saturday without any major commitments from major world economies to further reduce emissions and stop rising temperatures — an outcome organizer Alex Morrison said is unacceptable.