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French students wrote a manifesto to pressure companies to become more climate-friendly (Photo: Koert Debeuf)

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'Not climate-friendly? We won't work for your company'

French students wrote a manifesto to pressure companies to become more climate-friendly (Photo: Koert Debeuf)

I meet them in a coffee bar in Brussels. Five students from the so-called 'grandes écoles', the French elite institutions for higher education.

They have started a remarkable initiative to push companies to become more climate-friendly.

In September 2018 they wrote a manifesto for climate awakening in which they commit to use their power as future employees to change the companies that will want to hire them.

"We hav...

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