Record-breaking heat amplified waves of student climate protests in 2019
Activists pushed decision makers to take climate change seriously

Greta Thunberg (at table, second from left) and other young activists filed a complaint with the United Nations in September, arguing that a lack of action on climate change violated their human rights.
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