[4] Their strikes have seen thousands of students across England and Wales, with Fridays For Future Scotland, and Youth Climate Association Northern Ireland organising youth climate strikes in Scotland, and Northern Ireland respectively, leave or not go to school on Fridays.

The education system must be repurposed and reformed around the climate emergency to better teach young people about its urgency, severity, scientific basis and methods of mitigation.

Young people must be included in policy making, and no one should be excluded from participation in our democracy on the basis of age, citizenship, permanent address, incarceration or anything else.

Isle of Man Student Climate Network coordinates with UKSCN, but are an independent organisation, founded in March 2019 by Ciara Sowerby, Archibald Elliott and Emily Thompson.

The number of volunteers assisting the group grew from around 30 in early March 2019 to an estimate of 300 by the end of April that year.

[16] Any further demonstrations were paused due to the COVID-19 pandemic;[17] however, youth strikers have been engaging in online actions such as Fridays for Future Digital and Polluters Out's Twitter Storm.