Environment: Europe’s largest insurance brokers conference confronted with climate protests
A colourful and dramatic protest from environmental groups greeted delegates at Europe’s largest insurance brokers conference last Wednesday at Manchester Central Convention Centre. The demand was for the industry to stop backing fossil fuel projects
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I will save ratepayers billions of dollars every year and will make significant progress toward our climate goals at a time when we’re risking stagnation or worse. The status quo of our utility gas system is expensive, old, leaky, cold and dangerous
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https://www.longislandpress.com/2025/05/29/heat-act-rally-charles-lavine/
Climate protesters say no to Yancoal’s proposed open-cut coal mine expansion
Protesters chanted “Yancoal, No way! End mining coal today!” outside the fossil fuel company’s annual general meeting, on May 27, at Darling Harbour
Another four Just Stop Oil activists jailed as the UK justice system proves its complicity in the climate crisis
As they were sentenced, some of the Just Stop Oil defendants shouted, 'billions will die without action, this court is complicit!'
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025/05/27/just-stop-oil-manchester-prison-sentences/
Climate campaigners disrupt insurance brokers’ conference for third year
Extinction Rebellion’s Insure Our Survival campaign kept up the pressure on delegates to the British Insurance Brokers’ Association (BIBA) – Europe’s largest insurance brokers conference – with a colourful, day-long dramatic protest demanding they boycott deals with fossil fuel insurers and fossil fuel projects
About a dozen activists from the Extinction Rebellion climate group briefly occupied the entrance lobby of French bank BNP Paribas' headquarters in Paris on Friday morning in protest against what they said are BNP's links with TotalEnergies, which holds its annual shareholders meeting on Friday afternoon
Extinction Rebellion may have gone quiet, but climate protest will come roaring back
The pandemic and harsh laws suffocated climate movements as we knew them. Get ready for a new kind of action
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/20/extinction-rebellion-climate-protest-law
A new podcast asks: Are ‘radical’ climate activists really that radical?
"Sabotage" tells the story of the real people behind Just Stop Oil's controversial, soup-throwing stunts
https://grist.org/culture/sabotage-podcast-just-stop-oil-radical-climate-activists/
Climate activists storm Warsaw mayor's campaign HQ, demand public transport
A group of climate activists from Ostatnie Pokolenie (The Last Generation) occupied the campaign headquarters of Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski, calling on him to endorse their transport-related demands and arrange a meeting with Prime Minister Donald Tusk
Climate Resistance just disrupted luxury lifestyle event that asked attendees to fly in by private jet
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Climate Resistance infiltrated luxury lifestyle event ‘The Elite London’ at Wycombe Air Park near London on Saturday 17 May. Activists disrupted the showcase of private jets, yachts, and hypercars, with banners and chants
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025/05/19/climate-resistance-the-elite-london/
I’m facing 10 years in prison for climate protest. I’d still do it again
The UK’s broken justice system is locking young activists like me away – and we’ll all suffer the consequence
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/just-stop-oil-protester-prison-activist-manchester-airport/
‘MPs Need to Listen to the Scientists, Not the Oligarchs’ — Scientists Sound the Climate Alarm at Westminster
Chris Packham was joined by more than 150 scientists in a demonstration urging Westminster to start listening to the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change
https://bylinetimes.com/2025/05/19/chris-packham-westminster-climate-change/
Activists have just dragged Tony Blair over his rampant climate denialism
In the early hours of 13 May, dozens of unofficial adverts appeared across north London in response to Tony Blair’s comments on net zero policy. Campaign group Climate Resistance installed the adverts to call out Blair for being bankrolled by billionaires and petrostates
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025/05/13/tony-blair-climate-denial/
UK scientists stage historic climate protest at parliament
Chris Packham joins over 150 British experts rallying in London to demand urgent, science-based climate policy
More than 2000 students from seven Montreal-area schools marched peacefully on Friday morning may 9 to bring attention to climate change. What began as an idea in one of their classrooms amongst 10 students has turned into a wide-scale event involving students, teachers, and administrators
Over 50 activists from the Green Youth Movement (Den Grønne Ungdomsbevægelse) have broken into the Copenhagen office of Maersk Tankers.
The activists claim that the action is part of a larger series of actions over the next 10 days that will focus on the alleged role of Maersk in the climate crisis and Israel’s war crimes. They stated that the actions will take place all over Europe
The Sun, The Times and other News UK outlets are suppressing facts about the climate crisis and peddling climate delayism
The five courageous people who took action to bring this to the public’s attention go on trial today
We need an urgent media revolution so people are told the truth about the climate emergency leading to more ambitious action
U.K. Activists Stage Mock Funeral for 1.5°C Climate Target
Extinction Rebellion “Rebels” mark failure of governments to meet the critical climate target and declare, “there is still time to prevent more harm.”
Climate Activist Draw Attention To Outdated Regulations Of Heli Tourism In Aoraki National Park
Climate Liberation Aotearoa recently displayed several large banners around the Aoraki/Mt Cook area to protest for a new long-term sustainability plan for helicopters in Aoraki National Park
Despite the rain, 2,000 students from eight schools took to Westmount’s streets Friday morning, calling for urgent action against climate change.
After the march, students gathered at King George Park and called on elected officials to create more bike paths, ban single-use plastics, regulate fast-fashion and add climate education to the curriculum
https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/students-march-in-westmount-for-climate-action/
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