Along with the People’s Climate March late last year, we’ve been seeing rapidly escalating and sweeping environmental actions largely fortified by young people all over the world!

Take Global Divestment Day which took the world by storm a few weeks ago. Totaling 450 rallies held in 60 countries, hundreds of thousands of young people spoke out in solidarity against Big Oil and for increased focus on renewable energy. The Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement has grown so much over the past few years, borne largely out of increasingly ominous scientific reports on climate change, tragic extreme weather events, and the expansion of oil drilling and exploration despite nonstop news of disastrous accidents.

Over 25 universities and 42 cities worldwide have already committed to divestment. Many others are in the process – or at least have a running divestment campaign working to achieve this 3-part goal: