Aliénor Rougeot

Aliénor Rougeot (1998/1999)[1] is a Canadian climate change activist.[2][3][4] Rougeot came to national prominence in Canada as a Climate Strike Canada organizer.[2] She is a leader for Toronto's Fridays for Future Strikes, a movement calling on students to miss school on Fridays to raise awareness of climate change.[4]

Rougeot protesting at "Fridays for future" 15 March 2019

Aliénor Rougeot co-organized the youth climate strike and led Canada's mass “teach in” at Toronto's mass climate strike as part of the Global Week for Future in September 2019, an event that drew thousands of people to the grounds of Queen's Park.[3][5][6][7] She is an economics and public policy major at the University of Toronto.[8] Rougeot was named one of 50 most influential Torontonians by Toronto Life magazine in 2019.[5]

References
  1. "Meet the youth at the forefront of Canada's Fridays for Future movement". Ecojustice. 24 April 2019. Retrieved 20 May 2020.
  2. CBC (Sep 16, 2019). "'The world is so unsafe': Environmental activists pledge not to have kids". Canadian Broadcasting Company. Retrieved January 13, 2020.
  3. Somos, Christy (2019-09-20). "Meet the activist leading Ontario's youth climate strike movement". CTVNews. Retrieved 2020-01-13.
  4. Emily Chan (2019-04-24). "Meet the youth at the forefront of Canada's Fridays for Future movement". Ecojustice. Retrieved 2020-01-13.
  5. "The 50 Most Influential Torontonians of 2019". Toronto Life. 2019-11-21. Retrieved 2020-01-13.
  6. "The new 'childfree': Fearful amid climate change, some young Canadians abandon plans to have children". Retrieved 2020-01-13.
  7. "Reducing your own carbon footprint is great, but it won't save the planet unless governments and corporations step up | The Star". thestar.com. Retrieved 2020-01-13.
  8. Opinion, Aliénor Rougeot in; Energy; July 26th 2019, Politics |. "Aliénor Rougeot". National Observer. Retrieved 2020-01-13.
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