The Global Climate Strike, organized by Greta Thunberg’s ‘Fridays for Future’ movement was held across the world and in Budapest as well on the 23rd of September 2022.
A few hundred people took part in the movement, the demonstrators gathered in Batthyány square and marched to Kossuth square, where Dr. Béla Munkácsy, a researcher at ELTE TTK, and several activists also gave a speech.
The following were some of the demands that the organizers of the Global Climate Strike made:
• An independent Ministry of Environmental Protection
• Hungary should reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 65% by 2030 compared to the 1990 level.
• Protection for Hungary’s lakes
• At least 30% of Hungary's territory should be a nature conservation area
• Restoration of local government powers
• Air pollution should be immediately controlled
• Sustainable transport and urban traffic reduction
• Forests of the country should not be the sites of economic production, but the undisturbed habitats of the living world
• Chemical-free agriculture
• Environmental education
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