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Supporters of the environmental campaign group Extinction Rebellion gather on Trafalgar Square outside of the National Gallery in London for the first day of a two-week climate change protest campaign. The action is named 'Impossible Rebellion' and thousands of people expected to take part. IMAGES
Students in New York City take to the streets to join tens of thousands of teenagers and schoolchildren around the world for a day of protests against climate change. IMAGES
Hundreds of youths turned out in Paris for a third day of protesting climate change, at the behest of Swedish teenaged campaigner Greta Thunberg. IMAGES
Greta Thunberg and other environmental activists gather outside the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg, northeastern France, which is due to rule in three separate cases to decide wether states are doing enough in the face of climate change. IMAGES
Trial resumes for Benoit Feuillu and four other alleged organisers of two banned demonstrations in western rural France. The activists argue they fight to preserve water and are opposing large artificials reservoirs or "bassines" which they see as a way to monopolise water resources for the farming industry. in October 2022 and specially, in March 2023, the protests turned into violent clashes with police with many protesters injured. SOUNDBITE