New York is hosting Climate Week NYC, an annual event that promotes climate action, at the same time the UN General Assembly takes up the issue on several fronts.

Six years after a teenage Greta Thunberg walked out of school in a solitary climate protest outside of the Swedish parliament, people around a warming globe marched in youth-led protest, saying their voices are being heard but not sufficiently acted upon.

The New York protest wants to take aim at ‘the pillars of fossil fuels’ – companies that pollute, banks that fund them, and leaders who are failing on climate, an organizer said