FROM Europe to Africa to southeast Asia, tens of thousands of climate activists launched protests Friday, September 15, 2023, to call for an end to the burning of planet-warming...
FROM Europe to Africa to southeast Asia, tens of thousands of climate activists launched protests Friday, September 15, 2023, to call for an end to the burning of planet-warming fossil fuels as the globe suffers dramatic weather extremes and record-breaking heat, with plans to continue through the weekend.
“We need national climate protection laws because Austria has a great responsibility, we have a historical responsibility for our emissions,” Global 2000 campaigner Anna Leitner said. “And at the same time Austria and Europe are the seat of international companies which don’t care about laws elsewhere in the world and pollute the environment and climate. That’s exactly why we need a supply chain law and we demand climate protection on all levels.
In Quezon City in the Philippines, activists lay in front of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and held signs demanding fossil fuels — from coal to natural gas — be phased out. Outside the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources office in Jakarta, Indonesia, protesters held signs calling for end to dirty fuels and greenwashing as police officers looked on.
A week before the planned protest, the United Nations warned that countries are way off track to curb warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius since pre-industrial times, as agreed in Paris in 2015. The world has warmed at least 1.1 degrees since then.
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