- Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was arrested outside the InterContinental London Park Lane hotel during a ‘Get the Oil Money Out’ protest organized by Fossil Free London and Greenpeace.
- This demonstration was held on the first day of the Energy Intelligence Forum.
- Speaking at a press conference outside the hotel earlier in the day, Thunberg said: “We have no other choice but to put our bodies outside this conference and physically disrupt ourselves.”
A police officer talks to Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg moments before she was arrested outside the InterContinental London Park Lane during the “Oily Money Out” demonstration organized by Fossil Free London and Greenpeace on the sidelines of the opening day of the Energy Intelligence Forum 2023 in London on October 17, 2023.
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LONDON – Swedish police arrested climate activist Greta Thunberg on Tuesday after she joined hundreds of protesters to disrupt a major energy conference in London.
Thunberg was arrested outside the InterContinental London Park Lane hotel during the “Oil Money Out” protest organized by Fossil Free London and Greenpeace.
The event took place on the first day of the Energy Information Forum, a three-day gathering of senior oil and gas executives, politicians and civil society groups.
“We need direct action to take back power from the oil elite who met here today behind closed doors,” Nouri Sayed Courser, one of the organizers of the “Fossil Free London” campaign, said in a statement. “Their only plan is to make profit at our expense.”
Courser added: “Such arrests will not deter us. Our right to protest is ours, and the government did not grant it to us.”
Speakers scheduled to speak at the Energy Intelligence Forum, formerly known as the Oil & Money Conference, include Occidental Petroleum CEO Vicky Hollub, Saudi Aramco CEO Amin Nasser, and Shell CEO Wael Sawan.
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg is taken into a police car after being arrested outside the InterContinental London Park Lane during the “Oily Money Out” demonstration organized by Fossil Free London and Greenpeace on the sidelines of the opening day of the Energy Intelligence Forum 2023 in London on October 17, 2023.
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Speaking at a press conference outside the hotel earlier in the day, Thunberg said: “We have no other choice but to put our bodies out there and physically disable ourselves, and we have to do that every time. We have to keep showing them that.” They won’t get away with this.”
She added, “This is just the beginning of this battle, and we will stay and return again and again until we see real action.” “We have to take back power and that’s what we’re doing today. We have to get the oil money out.”
The 20-year-old became famous because she skipped school every Friday to hold a weekly vigil outside the Swedish Parliament in 2018.
Thunberg took part in her final school strike in June after graduating from school, signing off after 251 consecutive weeks of demonstrations with a warning that “the fight has only just begun.”
Fossil-Free London said 27 people have been arrested so far and protests outside the conference will continue until Thursday.
Dead police He said in a statement via XTwitter, formerly known as Twitter, said it imposed conditions on the protesters under Section 14 of the Public Order Act “to prevent serious disruption to the community, hotel and guests.”
It said a number of protesters failed to comply, with six people arrested for obstructing the highway, 14 arrests under Section 14 of the Public Order Act, and one for criminal damage.
Section 14 of the Public Order Act allows police to impose conditions on a public group to prevent a range of problems, including “significant impact on persons or serious disruption of the activities of an organization by noise; or serious disturbances”. [and] “Severe property damage.”
Major oil companies have been accused of reneging on climate pledges in recent months after posting record annual profits described Human rights group Amnesty International described it as “completely inexcusable” and an “utter disaster.”
Speaking at the ADIPEC oil and gas conference in Abu Dhabi earlier this month, CEOs of some of the world’s largest energy companies sought to defend themselves from climate criticism.
“We have to step up and prepare for the zero-carbon systems of the future,” Tengku Mohd Taufik, group president and CEO of Malaysia’s state energy company, Petronas, said during a panel moderated by CNBC on October 2.
He added: “So, it was always a discussion here, and I remembered an old saying: ‘If you want to keep everyone happy, sell ice cream.’” Tawfiq said: “We are not in the ice cream business – and I remember there were people with intolerances.” “Lactose.”
Climate activists protest outside the InterContinental London Park Lane during an “Oily Money Out” demonstration organized by Fossil Free London on the sidelines of the opening day of the Energy Intelligence Forum 2023 in London on October 17, 2023.
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Burning fossil fuels, such as oil, gas and coal The main driver of the climate crisis.
As widely expected, a major UN report published last month confirmed that the world is not currently on track to meet the long-term goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement, a landmark agreement aimed at continuing efforts to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees. °C above pre-industrial levels.
The world has Its temperature rose by about 1.1 degrees Celsius after more than a century of burning fossil fuels, as well as unequal and unsustainable energy and land use. In fact, this increase in temperatures is fueling a series of extreme weather events around the world.
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