Ewire: Climate protests seek to boost pressure on GHG policy

Organizers of the massive youth climate protests across the globe late last week are seeking to ratchet up pressure on policymakers and the broader public to implement deep and quick reductions in carbon emissions, with the demonstrations’ first test to come at today’s United Nations climate summit in New York. Turnout for the Sept. 20 protests was around 4 million in cities and towns worldwide, according to a New York Times roundup that cited the protests’ organizers. “You had...