Climate Siren activists scale Palace gates Rio+20

Four mem­bers of the group Cli­mate Siren, which includ­ed Occu­py Lon­don sup­port­ers, chained them­selves to Buck­ing­ham Palace gates on Sat­ur­day 23 June to high­light the biggest threat to our plan­et, cli­mate change. The activists were there for over 4 hours and the stunt attract­ed nation­al and inter­na­tion­al media atten­tion.

Four mem­bers of the group Cli­mate Siren, which includ­ed Occu­py Lon­don sup­port­ers, chained them­selves to Buck­ing­ham Palace gates on Sat­ur­day 23 June to high­light the biggest threat to our plan­et, cli­mate change. The activists were there for over 4 hours and the stunt attract­ed nation­al and inter­na­tion­al media atten­tion. Their ban­ners includ­ed a quote from Prince Charles that the ‘dooms­day clock of cli­mate change was tick­ing ever faster towards mid­night,’ and called for 10% annu­al emis­sions reduc­tions.

The action was timed to coin­cide with the end of the Rio+20 Earth Sum­mit on Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment, which as pre­dict­ed failed to deliv­er any bind­ing agree­ment to put human­i­ty on a path of true sus­tain­abil­i­ty and peace. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, we can­not rely on our elect­ed offi­cials to save the plan­et and the Rio +20 agen­da was dom­i­nat­ed by cor­po­rate inter­ests bent on pre­vent­ing any devi­a­tion from busi­ness as usu­al which will threat­en their prof­its. Peo­ple pow­er is our only hope for sav­ing the plan­et and all its inhab­i­tants.

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