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Reuters
Reuters
Environment
Ilze Filks and Philip O'Connor

'Girls' education is a climate solution': Malala Yousafzai joins climate protest

Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate, Nobel peace prize winner Malala Yousafzai and Swedish activist Greta Thunberg attend a "Fridays For Future" protest outside the Swedish parliament, in Stockholm, Sweden, June 10, 2022. REUTERS/Philip O'Connor

The fight against climate change is also a fight for the right to education of girls, millions of whom lose access to schools due to climate-related events, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai told Reuters on Friday.

Yousafzai was speaking outside the Swedish parliament where she joined environmental campaigners Greta Thunberg and Vanessa Nakate at one of the Friday climate protests which have been held there every week since 2018 and sparked a global movement.

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