World Leaders given an 'F' on solving climate change

Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg joined protests outside the Swedish parliament, where participants presented a report card giving politicians an F for “failed” in finding solutions for global warming at UN-led summits over the past decade and the verdict “Needs to try harder!”

“I would give them an F, actually. I know they did try, but they didn’t try hard enough,” activist Isabelle Axelsson expressed, and at the same time, she acknowledge they haven’t accomplished “convincing our politicians to act on climate, so I don’t think we should pass either, really.” Next year, in 2020, weekly school strikes and larger protests aimed at persuading politicians to act would continue, she added.

The demonstration took place in the same spot where, 16-year-old Thunberg started solo “School Strike for the Climate” outside parliament in August 2018, and then swelled into the global Fridays for Future movement.