Fridays for Future plans next global climate strike for November 29

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Fridays for future: Climate protest in Berlin
Climate protection activists wearing masks depicting German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) and Minister of Finance Olaf Scholz take part in a rally in front of the Federal Chancellery, organized by the Fridays for Future and the non-governmental organisation 'Campact' against the climate policy of the German Government. Photo: Christoph Soeder/dpa

The Fridays for Future youth movement to mitigate climate change is planning its next global protest day for November 29.

The fresh round of protests, attended by striking school students and their supporters, is set to take place days before the United Nations climate change conference kicks off in Chile on December 2.

The organization says demonstrations are planned for the last Friday in November in more than 100 cities. Alongside the school strikes for which the movement is known, climate activists have also promised “creative protests.”

The German branch of Fridays for Future decried the Berlin government’s “political bankruptcy” in terms of climate policies in an open letter to the coalition and governing parties on Friday.

It criticized a 54-billion-euro (59-billion-dollar) package of measures announced last month that aims to reduce carbon emissions, for example by increasing the cost of fuel.

The German activists called the measures “laughable.”