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This Week In Climate News: A Global Summit, A Protest, And Catholic Bishops

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Students and supporters of the Massachusetts Youth Climate Strike, crowd around the steps of the State House in Boston. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)
Students and supporters of the Massachusetts Youth Climate Strike crowd around the steps of the State House in Boston. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

World leaders are descending on New York this week for an upcoming climate summit at the United Nations.

At the same time, activists in Boston and cities around the world are planning a "climate strike" immediately before the summit to demand transformative action on climate change.

And the state's four Catholic bishops issued a pastoral letter Monday, calling on the faithful to address climate change.

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David Cash, former commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection and dean of the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at UMass Boston.

Varshini Prakash, co-founder and executive director of the Sunrise Movement. She tweets @VarshPrakash.

Radio Boston and WBUR are airing climate change stories all week as part of "Covering Climate Now," a global initiative of over 250 news outlets.

This article was originally published on September 16, 2019.

This segment aired on September 16, 2019.

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