Protesters take part in a protest for climate action as part of a Global Climate action day in Brussels on September 20, 2019.
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On September 23, the United Nations will open its Climate Action Summit here in New York, three days after Friday’s Global Climate Strike, led by Greta Thunberg, sweeps through thousands of cities across the globe. Here, Intelligencer is gathering images of the strike from around the world, starting with the very first marches in the Solomon Islands — check back throughout the day for updates. And for further reading, dive into State of the World, a series of in-depth interviews with climate leaders from Bill Gates to Naomi Klein and Rhiana Gunn-Wright to William Nordhaus interrogating just how they see the precarious climate future of the planet.
New York
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Washington, D.C.
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New Orleans, Louisiana
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Austin, Texas
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Chicago, Illinois
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San Francisco, California
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Mexico City, Mexico
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Santiago de Chile, Chile
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London
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Kent, England
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Edinburgh, Scotland
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Cardiff, Wales
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Brussels, Belgium
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Paris, France
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Berlin, Germany
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Vienna, Austria
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Stuttgart, Germany
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Turin, Italy
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Stockholm, Sweden
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Kraków, Poland
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Warsaw, Poland
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Zagreb, Croatia
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Kiev, Ukraine
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Cape Town, South Africa
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Johannesburg, South Africa
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Nairobi, Kenya
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Wakiso, Uganda
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Photo: Isaac Kasamani/AFP/Getty Images
Kathmandu, Nepal
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Photo: 360.org
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Photo: Emdadul Islam Bitu
Photo: Emdadul Islam Bitu
Hong Kong
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Bangkok, Thailand
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Islamabad, Pakistan
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Photo: Muhammed Semih Ugurlu/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
Karachi, Pakistan
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Kolkata, India
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New Delhi, India
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Colombo, Sri Lanka
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Bali, Indonesia
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Jakarta, Indonesia
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Quezon City, Philippines
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New Caledonia
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Tokyo, Japan
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Seoul, South Korea
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Melbourne, Australia
An Aboriginal man marching on September 20, 2019 in Melbourne, Australia.
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The crowd in Melbourne, Australia.
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Sydney, Australia
Thousands of school students and protesters gather in The Domain ahead of a climate strike rally on September 20, 2019 in Sydney, Australia.
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Vanuatu
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Solomon Islands
Photo: 350 Pacific via Twitter
Photo: 350 Pacific via Twitter
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