Thousands of environmental activists staged a rally outside Germany’s parliament Friday, two days before the country holds a national election, to demand that politicians take stronger action to curb climate change.
The protest outside the Reichstag in Berlin was part of a string of rallies around the world, including Japan, Britain, Italy and India — amid warnings the planet faces dangerous temperature rises unless greenhouse gas emissions are cut sharply in coming years.
While many of the protests were family affairs, activists in Britain blocked the country’s busiest ferry port Friday to highlight the climate situation.
Los Angeles
Rachel Weinberg, joins students from Alliance Leichtman Levine Family Foundation Environmental Science High School, as part of demonstrations around the globe to demand climate change.
(Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times)
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Students from Alliance Leichtman Levine Family Foundation Environmental Science High School, rally for climate change at Pershing Square in Los Angeles.
(Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times)
Germany
Calling for action on climate change, a rally at the Reichstag in Berlin draws thousands Friday as the nation prepares for national elections.
(Maja Hitij / Getty Images)
Participants in a global climate strike in Berlin. Spurred by the international Fridays for Future movement, gatherings were held around the world.
(Markus Schreiber/Associated Press)
Poland
Environmental activists, many of them students, rally in Warsaw as part of a global action to demand that leaders take stronger measures to curb climate change
(Czarek Sokolowski / Associated Press)
Italy
Students in Milan march as part of the Fridays for Future movement’s climate initiatives.
(Luca Bruno / Associated Press)
Portugal
A march in Lisbon as young people demand action on climate change. The Fridays for Future movement was inspired by Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg.
(Armando Franca / Associated Press)
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England
In London, people gather as part of the global Fridays for Future movement. Britain is set to host the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference in November.
(David Cliff / Associated Press)
Austria
Marchers in Vienna draw attention to climate change.
(Lisa Leutner / Associated Press)
India
In New Delhi, marchers join in a global Fridays for Future call to action.
Irfan Khan was a staff photographer with the Los Angeles Times from 1996 to 2024. He previously served as a freelance photographer for the publication beginning in 1989. Khan started his career as a commercial photographer in 1973 in Pakistan and moved to Dubai in 1977, where he worked for an advertising agency and at a leading English newspaper. Khan’s assignments have taken across Southern California and the U.S. Internationally, he has photographed the Hajj in Saudi Arabia and war zones of the Pakistan/Afghanistan border in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. He was part of the team awarded the Pulitzer Prize in breaking news for coverage of the 2015 terrorist attack in San Bernardino. In his spare time, he enjoys listening to semi-classical music of the Indian subcontinent and playing cricket on Sundays.
