Protests against coal plants across Poland as Warsaw climate change talks open

Protests against coal plants across Poland as Warsaw climate change talks open

13 NOVEMBER 2013

Messages projected included “Climate change starts here!” and “Storms start here!” and highlighted the link between greenhouse gas emissions, climate change and the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events like Super Typhoon Haiyan that devastated the Philippines.

Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director of Greenpeace International, said about COP19:

“It is time governments stopped acting in the interests of the fossil fuel industries. It is time they stopped putting the interests of corporate carbon profits ahead of people and the planet.”

 

Read more at Indybay: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/11/12/18746253.php

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