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Extinction Rebellion hold funeral for Paris Agreement 1.5°C climate target
Extinction Rebellion Cambridge and others are holding a mock funeral for the 1.5°C target international policymakers signed up to in the Paris Agreement of 2015. A spokesperson said: "Crossing 1.5°C for a whole calendar year is a wake up call for the world. If we want to avoid crossing further tipping points we need a complete transformation of society."
Climate protectors accused of breaking News UK windows to go on trial
Five people go on trial on Monday 12 May at Southwark Crown Court for alleged conspiracy to commit criminal damage at the headquarters of News UK (formerly News International) in July 2022. Two carefully broke windows while the other three flyposted newspaper articles. The Sun, The Times and other News UK outlets are suppressing facts about the climate crisis and peddling climate delayism. We need an urgent media revolution so people are told the truth about the climate emergency leading to more ambitious action.
Three arrested as women and FINT protesters hold topless blockade at Lakenheath air base
XR UK press office: +44(0)7756136396 | press@extinctionrebellion.uk Action photos | Lakenheath Peace Camp photos and videos At 9:30am this morning, twelve women, intersex, non-binary and trans activists…
BP targeted by intergenerational Extinction Rebellion activists over strategy U-turn
Early Media | Picture Link Media Contact: +44(0)7756136396 | press@extinctionrebellion.uk Kids use their school holidays to protest multinational oil giant Protesters single out BP CEO Murray…
Climate chaos hits McKinsey & Co’s London HQ
Extinction Rebellion activists are occupying McKinsey & Company’s London headquarters to demand it cuts all ties to its fossil fuel industry clients and starts putting planet before profit.
City of London insurance CEOs targeted for climate crimes in a second day of action
For a second day running, Extinction Rebellion (XR UK) protesters have targeted insurance companies in the City of London, asking ‘Who are the real criminals?’ [1] ahead of this afternoon’s appeal for the ‘Lord Walney 16’ nonviolent activists at the High Court. This morning (30th January) scores of protesters arrived from 8am to occupy the offices of Marsh McLennan, and target the CEOs and offices of Lloyd’s of London, Howden, Willis Towers Watson, AXA, and Hiscox - as staff arrived for work.
City of London insurance conference disrupted by Extinction Rebellion and students
Climate activists have this morning disrupted an insurance industry conference held at Howden's offices by interrupting proceedings, singing, theatre, occupying the entrance hall and blowing whistles.
Climate activists occupy London HQ of law firm that supports Big Oil
Extinction Rebellion is today (4 December) occupying the City of London headquarters of international law firm A&O Shearman that is playing a leading role in oiling the legal wheels of the deadly fossil fuel machine setting our planet on fire.
Extinction Rebellion supporters who protested pipeline constructors sentenced as 15 Ugandan students sent to maximum security prison
Extinction Rebellion activists The Worley Three have been given 320 hours of community service today for causing £6,000 in “damages” for their peaceful protest at the offices of multinational corporation Worley. The sentencing comes two days after 15 university students in Uganda were remanded to a maximum security prison for peacefully protesting the pipeline outside the Ugandan Parliament. Meanwhile the beleaguered project has run into fresh funding challenges.
‘They predict a riot’ Extinction Rebellion warn fossil fuel insurers could spark social unrest
A protestor was arrested as Extinction Rebellion scaled and occupied insurance buildings and unleashed the Four Insurers of the Apocalypse to warn of looming social collapse and unrest in a third day of actions targeting insurers in the City of London.
After the floods – hunger and wrecked lives
Six protestors arrested as insurer’s office is chalk-sprayed, the famous Gherkin building is occupied and insurance CEOs are branded climate criminals by a video van tour of the City of London as day two of Extinction Rebellion’s Insure Our Survival week hits the streets.
The floods are here!
A pink boat sailed through the City of London as hundreds of Extinction Rebellion activists occupied world-famous buildings, staged climate crime scenes and mass die-ins and marched to demand insurers stop insuring climate breakdown. The actions kicked off a week of mass protests in the capital and across the UK calling on the insurance industry to stop insuring fossil fuel criminals who are heating up the planet and flooding our homes.