The protest comes ahead of planned disruption to 60 cities around the world from Monday in a fortnight of civil disobedience, from Extinction Rebellion (XR), which is warning of an environmental "apocalypse". As the centre tried to close up on Saturday evening, security forces ordered the protesters to leave the area, activists told AFP. "To governments of the world: we declared a climate and ecological emergency. Extinction Rebellion was established last year in Britain by academics and has become one of the world's fastest-growing environmental movements. Campaigners want the government to declare a climate and ecological emergency, reduce greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2025, halt biodiversity loss and be led by new "citizens' assemblies on climate and ecological justice.

Source: The Local October 06, 2019 05:48 UTC