Climate activists united in Global Climate Strike 2023
Stock photo from the 2019 Skolstrejk for Klimatet march in berlin 29 March 2019. Photo: Robert K Chin / Alamy.
1 March 2023
Climate activism group Fridays for Future is preparing for their Global Day of Climate Action on March 3, 2023, with protests planned worldwide against fossil fuel use. Traffic disruptions are possible in major cities, and as more radical climate activist groups may attend, there is an increasing potential for disruptions during demonstrations.
By Marius Merz, LandRisk Junior analyst
The climate change activism group Fridays for Future is in their final preparations for their yearly Global Day of Climate Action, held on Friday, 03 March 2023. The climate activists will protest the continued use of fossil fuels, demanding an immediate end to the financing of international fossil fuel projects.
As protests are expected to occur on almost every continent, hundreds of demonstrations have already been registered worldwide. Most protests are planned in North America and Europe. The European countries with the most registered protests include Germany, the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Italy. Traffic issues should be expected in the primary demonstration locations, which will be the capital cities of Europe and other big cities. Major roads and transportation routes between European cities could still be affected, even though this is less likely.
While Fridays for Future is known for holding nonviolent demonstrations that are registered in advance with respective authorities, the group issued a statement in which they directly addressed all other climate activists, inviting them to employ any methods deemed necessary to join their demonstration against fossil fuel projects. Therefore, we should expect other climate activist groups that are known to employ more radical methods of “civil disobedience and disruption” to also attend the demonstrations. Disruptions, such as blockades of main motorways, activists glued to buildings or roads, or clashes between citizens and climate activists as has been observed in the past, cannot not be ruled out.
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