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BELGIUM, Brussels. 26/03/2019: A climate activist works on her computer under the statue of Leopold II, the controversial coloniser of the Congo. A coalition of environmental organisations occupied the neutral area in front of the Belgian Parliament two nights ago to put pressure on the government to adopt a modification of the constitution which would allow the creation of a federal environment ministry instead of the 3 current ministries. The climate activists were moved by the police and set up camp at the Place du Trone where they spent the 2 previous nights in a tent camp. Belgium abstained from signing the Katowice Climate Conference agreement in December 2018, partly because of the complex political configuration of a country with 4 (four!) environment ministers. This happened days after a 'Claim the Climate' demonstration gathered 70K people in the streets of Brussels on December 2nd 2018. Irritated by the neglecting attitude of the government, and inspired by the young Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, a small group of second grade students, led by Anuna De Wever, Kyra Gantois, Adelaïde Charlier and others, started a series of weekly demonstrations with school-skipping students to put pressure on the Belgian Government to finally come up with a coherent and drastic plan to tackle climate issues. Gathering only a few thousand students on its first time on January 10th, the numbers grew to 12K the second week, reached 35K one week after that and spread in several cities all over Belgium. The energetic presence of the students in the streets considerably raised climate change awareness with the public and, combined with the looming elections of May 2019, climate became probably the hottest topic on the political agenda. This is a chronological thread on Instagram about the events. #MAPS #youthforclimate #climatechange #actforclimate #brossenvoorbossen More here: https://mapsbase.photoshelter.com/gallery/Belgium-Youth-for-Climate/G0000TlxamO3b2rU/C0000ZXz2kpvEv2k https://www.instagram.com/vinkjohn/p/Bxbh2twI_au/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=12qbxkq80m0gp

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BELGIUM, Brussels. 2/05/2019: The 17th weekly march organised by Youth for Climate, school skipping students inspired by climate activist Greta Thunberg, to put pressure on the Belgian government to implement radical measures to curb global warming was joined by organisations involved in poverty relief. The clothes pins symbolise sympathisers to the movement who cannot be present. Belgium abstained from signing the Katowice Climate Conference agreement in December 2018, partly because of the complex political configuration of a country with 4 (four!) environment ministers. This happened days after a 'Claim the Climate' demonstration gathered 70K people in the streets of Brussels on December 2nd 2018. Irritated by the neglecting attitude of the government, and inspired by the young Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, a small group of second grade students, led by Anuna De Wever, Kyra Gantois, Adelaïde Charlier and others, started a series of weekly demonstrations with school-skipping students to put pressure on the Belgian Government to finally come up with a coherent and drastic plan to tackle climate issues. Gathering only a few thousand students on its first time on January 10th, the numbers grew to 12K the second week, reached 35K one week after that and spread in several cities all over Belgium. The energetic presence of the students in the streets considerably raised climate change awareness with the public and, combined with the looming elections of May 2019, climate became probably the hottest topic on the political agenda. This is a chronological thread on Instagram about the events. #MAPS #youthforclimate #climatechange #actforclimate #brossenvoorbossen More here: https://mapsbase.photoshelter.com/gallery/Belgium-Youth-for-Climate/G0000TlxamO3b2rU/C0000ZXz2kpvEv2k https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxgn2xFociU/?igshid=1e6uuof4x5sor

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BELGIUM, Brussels. 21/02/2019: The 7th 'Youth for Climate Change' demonstration by school skipping students who put pressure on the government to come up with radical changes in environment policy was led by Greta Thunberg (pictured here), a 16-year old Swedish climate activist. Belgium abstained from signing the Katowice Climate Conference agreement in December 2018, partly because of the complex political configuration of a country with 4 (four!) environment ministers. This happened days after a 'Claim the Climate' demonstration gathered 70K people in the streets of Brussels on December 2nd 2018. Irritated by the neglecting attitude of the government, and inspired by the young Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, a small group of second grade students, led by Anuna De Wever, Kyra Gantois, Adelaïde Charlier and others, started a series of weekly demonstrations with school-skipping students to put pressure on the Belgian Government to finally come up with a coherent and drastic plan to tackle climate issues. Gathering only a few thousand students on its first time on January 10th, the numbers grew to 12K the second week, reached 35K one week after that and spread in several cities all over Belgium. The energetic presence of the students in the streets considerably raised climate change awareness with the public and, combined with the looming elections of May 2019, climate became probably the hottest topic on the political agenda. This is a chronological thread on Instagram about the events. #MAPS #youthforclimate #climatechange #actforclimate #brossenvoorbossen #gretathunberg More here: https://mapsbase.photoshelter.com/gallery/Belgium-Youth-for-Climate/G0000TlxamO3b2rU/C0000ZXz2kpvEv2k https://www.instagram.com/vinkjohn/p/BwnwmKMBf2u/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1js08177bxfw0

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BELGIUM, Brussels. 25/03/2019: A coalition of environmental organisations occupied the neutral area in front of the Belgian Parliament the previous night to put pressure on the government to adopt a modification of the constitution which would allow the creation of a federal environment ministry instead of the 3 current ministries. They were moved by the police and set up camp at the Place du Trône. The activists plan to stay until the 26th, date when the vote will take place. Belgium abstained from signing the Katowice Climate Conference agreement in December 2018, partly because of the complex political configuration of a country with 4 (four!) environment ministers. This happened days after a 'Claim the Climate' demonstration gathered 70K people in the streets of Brussels on December 2nd 2018. Irritated by the neglecting attitude of the government, and inspired by the young Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, a small group of second grade students, led by Anuna De Wever, Kyra Gantois, Adelaïde Charlier and others, started a series of weekly demonstrations with school-skipping students to put pressure on the Belgian Government to finally come up with a coherent and drastic plan to tackle climate issues. Gathering only a few thousand students on its first time on January 10th, the numbers grew to 12K the second week, reached 35K one week after that and spread in several cities all over Belgium. The energetic presence of the students in the streets considerably raised climate change awareness with the public and, combined with the looming elections of May 2019, climate became probably the hottest topic on the political agenda. This is a chronological thread on Instagram about the events. #MAPS #youthforclimate #climatechange #actforclimate #brossenvoorbossen More here: https://mapsbase.photoshelter.com/gallery/Belgium-Youth-for-Climate/G0000TlxamO3b2rU/C0000ZXz2kpvEv2k https://www.instagram.com/vinkjohn/p/Bw8i2gzBDDw/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1th9zbrht9ioc

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BELGIUM, Brussels. 2/05/2019: Protesters stage a die-in during the 17th weekly march organised by Youth for Climate, school skipping students inspired by climate activist Greta Thunberg, to put pressure on the Belgian government to get involved in radical measures to curb global warming. Belgium abstained from signing the Katowice Climate Conference agreement in December 2018, partly because of the complex political configuration of a country with 4 (four!) environment ministers. This happened days after a 'Claim the Climate' demonstration gathered 70K people in the streets of Brussels on December 2nd 2018. Irritated by the neglecting attitude of the government, and inspired by the young Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, a small group of second grade students, led by Anuna De Wever, Kyra Gantois, Adelaïde Charlier and others, started a series of weekly demonstrations with school-skipping students to put pressure on the Belgian Government to finally come up with a coherent and drastic plan to tackle climate issues. Gathering only a few thousand students on its first time on January 10th, the numbers grew to 12K the second week, reached 35K one week after that and spread in several cities all over Belgium. The energetic presence of the students in the streets considerably raised climate change awareness with the public and, combined with the looming elections of May 2019, climate became probably the hottest topic on the political agenda. This is a chronological thread on Instagram about the events. #MAPS #youthforclimate #climatechange #actforclimate #brossenvoorbossen More here: https://mapsbase.photoshelter.com/gallery/Belgium-Youth-for-Climate/G0000TlxamO3b2rU/C0000ZXz2kpvEv2k https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxte8CXIYiX/?igshid=1c1t86sb5w25d

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BELGIUM, Brussels. 2/05/2019: The 17th weekly march organised by Youth for Climate, school skipping students inspired by climate activist Greta Thunberg, to put pressure on the Belgian government to get involved in radical measures to curb global warming. Some participants clean the streets from cigarette butts and recyclable garbage. Belgium abstained from signing the Katowice Climate Conference agreement in December 2018, partly because of the complex political configuration of a country with 4 (four!) environment ministers. This happened days after a 'Claim the Climate' demonstration gathered 70K people in the streets of Brussels on December 2nd 2018. Irritated by the neglecting attitude of the government, and inspired by the young Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, a small group of second grade students, led by Anuna De Wever, Kyra Gantois, Adelaïde Charlier and others, started a series of weekly demonstrations with school-skipping students to put pressure on the Belgian Government to finally come up with a coherent and drastic plan to tackle climate issues. Gathering only a few thousand students on its first time on January 10th, the numbers grew to 12K the second week, reached 35K one week after that and spread in several cities all over Belgium. The energetic presence of the students in the streets considerably raised climate change awareness with the public and, combined with the looming elections of May 2019, climate became probably the hottest topic on the political agenda. This is a chronological thread on Instagram about the events. #MAPS #youthforclimate #climatechange #actforclimate #brossenvoorbossen More here: https://mapsbase.photoshelter.com/gallery/Belgium-Youth-for-Climate/G0000TlxamO3b2rU/C0000ZXz2kpvEv2k https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxq_s0soTFF/?igshid=1qpvwklawqmxu

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BELGIUM, Brussels. 25/03/2019: A coalition of environmental organisations occupied the neutral area in front of the Belgian Parliament the previous night to put pressure on the government to adopt a modification of the constitution which would allow the creation of a federal environment ministry instead of the 3 current ministries. They were moved by the police and set up camp at the Place du Trône. The activists plan to stay until the 26th, date when the vote will take place. Belgium abstained from signing the Katowice Climate Conference agreement in December 2018, partly because of the complex political configuration of a country with 4 (four!) environment ministers. This happened days after a 'Claim the Climate' demonstration gathered 70K people in the streets of Brussels on December 2nd 2018. Irritated by the neglecting attitude of the government, and inspired by the young Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, a small group of second grade students, led by Anuna De Wever, Kyra Gantois, Adelaïde Charlier and others, started a series of weekly demonstrations with school-skipping students to put pressure on the Belgian Government to finally come up with a coherent and drastic plan to tackle climate issues. Gathering only a few thousand students on its first time on January 10th, the numbers grew to 12K the second week, reached 35K one week after that and spread in several cities all over Belgium. The energetic presence of the students in the streets considerably raised climate change awareness with the public and, combined with the looming elections of May 2019, climate became probably the hottest topic on the political agenda. This is a chronological thread on Instagram about the events. #MAPS #youthforclimate #climatechange #actforclimate #brossenvoorbossen More here: https://mapsbase.photoshelter.com/gallery/Belgium-Youth-for-Climate/G0000TlxamO3b2rU/C0000ZXz2kpvEv2k https://www.instagram.com/vinkjohn/p/Bw6B7YPhzN4/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1sz1xcncaaou5

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BELGIUM, Brussels. 15/03/2019: The 10th consecutive climate change demonstration organised for school skipping students by 'Youth for Climate', led by Anuna De Wever, Kyra Gantois, Adelaide Charlier and Youna Marette, and by 'Global Strike for Climate'. It gathered over 30000 protesters urging the Belgian government to speed up radical decision making regarding climate change. The event was held simultaneously in 90 countries worldwide. Belgium abstained from signing the Katowice Climate Conference agreement in December 2018, partly because of the complex political configuration of a country with 4 (four!) environment ministers. This happened days after a 'Claim the Climate' demonstration gathered 70K people in the streets of Brussels on December 2nd 2018. Irritated by the neglecting attitude of the government, and inspired by the young Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, a small group of second grade students, led by Anuna De Wever, Kyra Gantois, Adelaïde Charlier and others, started a series of weekly demonstrations with school-skipping students to put pressure on the Belgian Government to finally come up with a coherent and drastic plan to tackle climate issues. Gathering only a few thousand students on its first time on January 10th, the numbers grew to 12K the second week, reached 35K one week after that and spread in several cities all over Belgium. The energetic presence of the students in the streets considerably raised climate change awareness with the public and, combined with the looming elections of May 2019, climate became probably the hottest topic on the political agenda. This is a chronological thread on Instagram about the events. #MAPS #youthforclimate #climatechange #actforclimate #brossenvoorbossen More here: https://mapsbase.photoshelter.com/gallery/Belgium-Youth-for-Climate/G0000TlxamO3b2rU/C0000ZXz2kpvEv2k https://www.instagram.com/vinkjohn/p/BwtCT1UhaDo/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=rpx1o612bep5