Explained: How Greta Thunberg’s climate strikes became a global movement in a year | Explained News, The Indian Express

Explained: How Greta Thunberg’s climate strikes became a global movement in a year | Explained News, The Indian Express

By Thomson Reuters Foundation |London |Updated: August 20, 2019 8:17:54 am

Explained: How Greta Thunberg’s climate strikes became a global movement in a year

Here is a timeline on how the "Fridays for Future" school strikes developed into a global movement and some of the controversies it has seen along the way.

Greta Thunberg walks in the Marina where the boat Malizia is moored, in Plymouth, England. (AP Photo)

Student activist Greta Thunberg’s school strike movement marked its first anniversary on Tuesday after a year that has seen the schoolgirl rise from a solitary protester to a leading figure in the fight against climate change.