eNCA reports these youngsters, dubbed the "climate kids", believe governments have dropped the ball in addressing this challenge.

AFP reports that classrooms in capitals from Bangkok to Berlin, Lagos to London emptied as as ambitious organisers of the student climate strike hoped to stage 1,000 demonstrations in more than 100 countries. 

Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg inspired the protests and has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

The Paris treaty calls for capping global warming at “well below” two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) but the planet is currently on track to heat up by double that figure.

The UN’s climate science panel warned in October that only a wholesale transformation of the global economy and consumer habits could forestall a catastrophe.

-The South African/eNCA/GroundUp