A group of climate change activists known around the world for their dramatic protests and willingness to be arrested blocked traffic in downtown Vancouver on Saturday. Around 50 people with Extinction Rebellion marched from the Vancouver Art Gallery to the law courts Saturday afternoon, then occupied the intersection at Hornby and Smithe streets. (Darryl Dyck/Canadian Press)Extinction Rebellion has three key objectives: to see governments communicate and act with urgency around climate change; engage citizens through an assembly that will determine policies to stop climate change; and ensure carbon emissions are reduced to net zero by 2025 — a deadline 25 years shorter than that proposed by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. "I always thought that climate change is an issue that is going to be happening in the future, and we'll worry about it in 10 years, 20 years. We have to make the changes now," said Nam Topp-Nguyen a volunteer with Extinction Rebellion.

Source: CBC News February 28, 2021 19:58 UTC