Sitting in the sun across the street from the White House, 18-year-old Ema Govea holds a black and yellow sign saying she is on a hunger strike to demand action against climate change.

The hunger strikers want Biden to push for the full $3.5 trillion in his proposed social spending agenda that includes measures to cut carbon emissions and mitigate the effects of climate change.

The activists urged Biden to push through his agenda before the COP26 international climate summit in Glasgow starting at the end of this month, saying that the world would follow the US if it does the right thing.

In his first day in office as president, Biden moved to rejoin the 2016 Paris Climate Accord, which his predecessor Donald Trump had nixed.

Kidus Girma, one of the hunger strikers, slammed the president for negotiating with Manchin and Sinema behind closed doors instead of calling them out publicly to back his agenda.

Because right now he can say it’s Joe Manchin, but mostly it’s him; it’s Biden that’s not fighting hard enough,” Girma said.

Dozens gathered around the hunger strikers at a rally near the White House on Friday to urge the administration to advance its own climate plan.

Activists say this year has been a turning point in the predicted physical effects of climate change becoming a reality in the United States.