(16 Nov 2024)
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Rome, Italy – 16 November 2024
1. Climate activists holding banner reading (Italian): “For climate, phase out fossil fuels”
2. Protester wearing face-mask representing animal, holding placard reading (Italian and English): “Clean the COP – Lobbies out from the COP”
3. Close of placard reading (English and Italian): “Climate pride – Ecological transition”
4. Various of protesters marching
5. Protesters, placard held by protester in background reading (Italian): “Renewal future, future of peace”
6. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Maria Teresa Imparato, climate activist:
“We want that ecological transition that many political forces are trying to slow down and to halt, and we want that now, because it is the road to redemption, through which we can win inequalities, and most of all we need to give answers to what is happening, to all the extreme (weather) events cause by climate change.”
7. Close of placard reading (Italian): “Enough with false promises!”
8. Protesters holding banner showing fossil fuels and child showing them the way out, reading (Italian): “Time to go”
9. Close of protesters holding an inflatable world globe
10. Close of placard reading (Italian): “Alive? Let the bugs live”
11. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Maria Teresa Imparato, climate activist:
“We send a message form Rome to Baku, to the COP, to ask them to take brave and coherent political decisions. Winning the challenge of climate change means winning the economic and the social challenges as well.”
12. Various of demonstration
13. SOUNDBITE (Italian) name not given, protester:
“United we can all be in favour of climate, against pollution, against the madness of energy produced by fossil fuels, and in favour of renewable energy. This is an undeniable choice and we have to make it quickly.”
14. Various of climate activists marching
15. Close of banner reading (English): “Stop the fever”
16. Various of activists wearing animal face-masks during protest
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of activists marched in Rome on Saturday to demand action against climate change and a transition to renewable energy.
Approximately one thousand protesters belonging to dozens of environmentalists groups, such as WWF, Greenpeace, Legambiente, Extinction Rebellion and Fridays for Future marched down the streets of Italy’s capital.
The protest was aimed at the current COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, with the key message being: “don’t drop the green transition.”
Demonstrators feared that the summit could be too influenced by fossil fuels lobbies and miss the targets that should limit global warming in the coming decades.
Activists that marched from central Piazza Vittorio to the suburban park of Ex-Snia were asking for decarbonisation, climate justice and policies to keep global warming within the 1.5 celsius degrees threshold.
The march, dubbed Climate Pride, was peaceful and very colourful.
Main slogans were “For climate, phase out from fossil fuels” and “Fossil fuels out from COP”.
World leaders converged Tuesday at the United Nations annual climate conference with plenty of big names and powerful countries noticeably absent.
Past talks often had the star power of a soccer World Cup. But the meeting getting underway in Azerbaijan won’t have the top leaders of the 13 largest carbon dioxide-polluting countries — a group responsible for more than 70% of the heat-trapping gases emitted last year.
“The people who are responsible for this are absent,” Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko said during his speech at the summit. “There’s nothing to be proud about.”
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