Abergavenny school children joined a global strike on Friday to demand politicians take their futures seriously and take urgent action to address climate change.

The strike is part of a growing local and global movement of school children and students who have decided that enough is enough, said a local organiser.

Throngs of children and young people assembled outside Abergavenny’s market hall on Friday morning, before looping through the town centre, brandishing placards urging action on global warming.

“Inertia and inaction on climate change has set the world on a dangerous path and unless urgent and radical action is taken to cut emissions, global temperatures could rise by more than 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels, with severe consequences for humanity,” said a spokeswoman, ahead of Friday’s event.

Hundreds of schoolchildren from the surrounding areas spent an hour calling on their local councillors to declare a Climate Emergency in Monmouthshire and commit to zero emissions by 2030.

They also asked David Davies MP to confirm that he is would use his political will to ensure ‘radical action’ is taken to address what they called a ‘growing crisis’.

"I am here for climate change. this isn’t my fault, it’s the adults of today, yet it is me standing here not them,” said Jessica Kirkwood, aged 8, from Usk. “I want to tell our government to stop using fossil fuels, to educate people on why they should stop eating meat. Stop chopping down trees and save our planet! We have 12 years left to make a huge change. I am sad and i’m afraid for my future if no one listens.”