More than 65,000 people marched in Brussels, with organisers estimating around 75,000 including cyclists. The Climate Coalition called on governments to align policy with the Paris Agreement and limit warming. The scale of this march showed that climate activism had a wide civil-society base before school strikes began; it helped create a high-profile political context for Youth for Climate’s student-led actions the following month.
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What did the Climate Coalition’s 2018 Claim the Climate march demand?
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The march called for stronger climate policy consistent with the Paris Agreement.
Claim the Climate in 2018 was organised after the Youth for Climate school strikes had already begun.
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The mass march took place in December 2018, before the first Belgian school strike in January 2019.