Greta Thunberg Leads Pan-Europe COP26 Climate Protests
Greta Thunberg founder of Fridays for Future protested in the financial district of Frankfurt and London. The decrepit remains of what was once a family vehicle was dropped on the doorstep of Belgian Central Bank (BNB) in a protest against the financing of fossil fuels in the era of a climate emergency. The wrecked car, damaged in the 2021 floods, was hauled from hard-hit Verviers in the east of the country to the BNB and the EU capital to bring "the reality of climate change to its doorstep" - a symbolic harbinger of what is to come if financial centres do not stop financing such fuels. In total, 50 financial centres around the world were targeted as part of concerted action to usher in the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, also known as COP26. Climatologists have connected the extreme rainfall event that led to the floods with climate change. If banks keep funding fossil fuels this problem will only get worse, the activists said. Their demand was simple: stop fossil fuel funding. Since the 2015 Paris Agreement, the world's 60 biggest banks have poured over €3 trillion into fossil fuels, with EU banks providing over €475bn.
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