XR organisers have planned to shut down key sites in central London, in addition to demonstrating outside government departments.
The protests come following what’s been described as a series of disappointing climate commitments from rich world countries at a summit in New York and a major report from the UN’s expert science panel, the IPCC, which warned of unprecedented consequences to the world’s oceans and ice systems without drastic action from governments.
Together with charities Christian Aid, Tearfund, and CAFOD, CCA are demanding the Government reduce carbon emissions to zero by 2025 and to be more transparent about the global impact of climate change on vulnerable communities.
They also want to see a citizens’ assembly established to combat the climate emergency.
CCA member Rev Helen Burnett is a vicar at St Peter & St Paul’s Chaldon in the Diocese of Southwark.
Speaking to Premier at the Lambeth Bridge protest she said a citizens’ assembly would help to protect the needs of those in poverty.
“It’s a way of divesting decision making away from the kind of combat models that we have in the House of Commons into something more cooperative, in which people are working for the common good, not for the good of the wealthiest.”
Helen says the locations of the London protests are strategic and the disruption they…
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