Greta Thunberg Speech at UN Climate Action Summit

Provided by: Greta Thunberg |Published on: April 27, 2021

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In this speech from Greta Thunberg to the United Nations Climate Action Summit in 2019, Thunberg discusses the remaining carbon budget to avoid dangerous environmental consequences and focuses the responsibility to act on older generations currently in positions of power.
Thunberg highlights that the UN plan only provides a 50 percent chance of avoiding catastrophic ecological conditions and that tipping points and feedback loops may reduce that chance even further.

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Subjects: Earth and Space Sciences, Civics

Authors: Greta Thunberg

Region: Global

Languages: English

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Positives

Greta Thunberg's speech is clear, easy to understand, extremely powerful, and is made even more impactful by the fact that she was only 16 years old when she gave this speech.
This passionate speech instills a sense of urgency to take action.

Prerequisites

There may be an ad before the video.
Students should be familiar with what 1.5 degrees Celsius means regarding climate change.

Differentiation & Implementation

This is a great video to show in a social studies or history class when talking about activism.
Students can compare the tone and emotion Greta uses in her speech to other speeches given on the same day at the UN Climate Summit.
Writing or language arts classes can have students make their own speeches about climate change or another topic they are passionate about after watching this video.
Some related resources are this activity Climate Strike and Art Activism - Create Your Story, this lesson plan Greta Meets Malala: How Different Media Forms Present the News, and this activity Personal Narrative: Chiamaka Obilo.

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