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Under Police Gaze, Climate Protesters Return to Britain's Streets

Thomson Reuters Foundation

   LONDON - After a pandemic hiatus, more than a thousand mask-wearing
   Extinction Rebellion climate activists marched back onto London's
   streets Tuesday, calling for swifter action to halt global warming as a
   huge contingent of police looked on.

   With Britain's Parliament returning to work this week after a summer
   recess, protesters blocked the square in front of the building and
   called for legislators to take up a proposed climate and ecological
   emergency bill.

   It aims to expand Britain's pledge to achieve net-zero emissions by
   2050 to cover so-far excluded sectors such as international shipping
   and air travel, and for actions toward the goal to be faster and
   determined by a citizens' assembly.

   "The important thing is having the government admit they're too slow.
   Right now they're not taking responsibility," said Reece Evans, 24, an
   Extinction Rebellion activist and actor who held a placard reading,
   "Back the Bill."

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