climate strike

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• US: /ˈklaɪmət straik/
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Firstly coined in 2015 during a mass demonstration at UN Climate Change Conference in Paris, the expression took off only in 2018 after the Swedish activist Greta Thunberg started skipping school on Fridays in order to protest in front of the national parliament. In September 2019 around six million people joined the climate strike worldwide.

9 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Chinese Mandarin: 气候罢工 (qìhòubàgōng) — a protest in form of skipping school or work to draw public's attention to the problem of climate crisis
• Dutch: klimaatstaking — a protest in form of skipping school or work to draw public's attention to the problem of climate crisis
• Finnish: ilmastolakko — a protest in form of skipping school or work to draw public's attention to the problem of climate crisis
• French: grève pour le climat — a protest in form of skipping school or work to draw public's attention to the problem of climate crisis
• German: Klimastreik — a protest in form of skipping school or work to draw public's attention to the problem of climate crisis
• Japanese: 気候ストライキ (kikōsutoraiki) — a protest in form of skipping school or work to draw public's attention to the problem of climate crisis
• Korean: 기후 파업 (gihu pa'eop) — a protest in form of skipping school or work to draw public's attention to the problem of climate crisis
• Polish: strajk klimatyczny — a protest in form of skipping school or work to draw public's attention to the problem of climate crisis
• Russian: климати́ческая забасто́вка (klimatíčeskaja zabastóvka) — a protest in form of skipping school or work to draw public's attention to the problem of climate crisis