Students on strike in London over climate change. Photo: WIktor Szymanowicz/NurPhoto/ AFP
School children are being asked to stay away from school on Friday as part of a worldwide protest against climate change. Organisers hope thousands of children, from primary to secondary school, will join children from around the globe in demanding faster action from politicians. One of the organisers of the New Zealand strike, Raven Maeder, is in our Wellington studio