Students across the Carlisle area are planning another mass protest over local climate policies.

The event, which is set to take place tomorrow at 11am, will focus on three buildings: MP John Stevenson’s office; Cumbria County Council headquarters; and the Carlisle City Council offices. There will be a different protest point at each of the sites.

Notably, they will be questioning the county council over the decision to grant permission for a new undersea coal mine just off the coast of St Bees, which will be the country’s first coal mine to be opened in almost 30 years.

At Mr Stevenson’s office, the students will demand to be heard and implore the Government to do something to combat the climate crisis.

At the city council offices, they will ask what is being done locally to try and tackle climate change.

The protest is the second in what they are calling a series of strikes.

Ada Wood and Layla-Grace Thompson are organising the event. In a joint statement they said: “This strike in the spring holidays is organised by young people because we want to show how strongly we feel about the climate and our future, that is why we are giving up our holiday time to show we are not just using this as an excuse to get the day off school.

“We are striking because we know the UK Government aren’t doing enough to tackle climate change.

“We are worried about our future.”

The first Carlisle strike, on March 15, was deemed to be a huge success, with about a dozen children between the ages of 10 and 15 mobilising over social media and turning out in the city centre to demand that their voices be heard.

It was 16-year-old Greta Thunberg, from Sweden, who was the spark that lit the international fire of youth strikes over climate change. She staged a strike outside Swedish Parliament last summer following the heatwave that engulfed most of Europe.

From there, people across the world began to take notice.

In the first wave of youth strikes in the UK about 10,000 people attended. During the second, more than 50,000 people turned out.

Fear for the future is an issue that the national branch of Youth Strike 4 Climate feels particularly passionate about.

They state that as “young people, with more of their life ahead of them, have the most to lose from an unsafe future”.

This youth strike marks the beginning of a series of protests over climate change. The Carlisle strike will be one of many taking place across the country designed to amplify the voices of young people who feel like they have been failed by the older generation.

Young people and adults in Carlisle “who care about the environment, their future and their world” are invited to join the strike with their homemade banners on Friday.