A document, with more than 900 signatures, requires the government to present “a plan to end the burning and use of fossil fuels” in Portugal by 2030.
Students to the end of the fossil by 2030 scheduled a march to the Assembly of the Republic in Lisbon, on Thursday one of the movement spokesmen at the origin of the action announced on Thursday.
“On April 28, we will leave our classes and march to the Assembly of the Republic in a strike. All people […]whether students or not, they are more than invited, obviously to appear, “said Matilde Ventura, on the sidelines of the sentence in Lisbon, the activist today sentenced to a fine for hitting Luis Montenegro with ink during the 2024 election campaign.
The activist added that “in the following weeks” to April 28, the campaign period for early May 18 legislative elections, “students will not consent to a government that does not commit” to the students’ letter to end the fossil by 2030.
“All parties who intend to form government have to commit to the Student Charter for the end of the fossil by 2030. If they do not, they will not have legitimacy to rule,” said Matilde Ventura.
The document, with more than 900 signatures, requires the government to present “a plan to end the burning and use of fossil fuels” in Portugal by 2030, “through a fair transition that does not harm those who have not caused” the climate crisis that the whole population faces.
