• I HAVE written, as an Islington councillor, to the leader and chief executive of Islington Council to show my solidarity with young people in Islington participating in the Youth Strike 4 Climate today (Friday).

With the ever-expanding knowledge about the impact of global industrialisation on every part of our lives and life on this planet, it is inspiring and shaming that children and young people can see, so much more clearly than we adults, the urgent need to take action on climate breakdown.

Specifically, I have asked “that the council can carefully consider any pupil absences as a result of their climate strike action and take into account the exceptional circumstances and the positive learning experience from their citizens’ action and political participation”.

CLLR CAROLINE RUSSELL
Green Party, Highbury East