Fridays For Future

Why in News ?

Students and youth under the banner of Fridays For Future (FFF), a global movement demanding climate justice, protested outside the Union Environment Ministry. 

• History Behind
  • FFF is a global climate strike movement that started in August 2018, when 15-year-old Greta Thunberg began a strike in Sweden.
  • She sat outside the Swedish Parliament every school day, demanding urgent action on the climate crisis that turned into a global movement. 
  • One of the main goals of the movement is to put moral pressure on policy-makers, to make them listen to scientists and then to take action to limit global warming.
• Why FFF in India ?
  • Frequency of extreme weather events is increasing exponentially
  • the government has passed many damaging legislations and rules, including the EIA 2020 and public consultation on environment laws are almost zero.
  • FFF is trying to make awareness of the environment damaging provisions in Draft Environment Impact Assessment, 2020.

Current Affairs Compilation : 26 September 2020