CLIMATE activists dumped a pile of fake coal outside Lloyd’s of London today in protest at insurers’ backing the fossil fuel industry.
Members of Extinction Rebellion (XR) used a tipper truck to deposit rubble outside the famous insurance market in the City of London at 7am, blocking the building’s main entrance.
Campaigners said that the protest was to highlight the sector’s role in facilitating the fossil fuel industry by insuring and investing in it.
This includes support for some of the world’s “most polluting projects,” XR claimed, including the Adani mining firm’s controversial Carmichael coalmine in Queensland, Australia.
06:37 EDT, 23 April 2021
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Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists dumped fake coal outside Lloyd s of London s headquarters today in protest against the fossil fuel industry a day after the US committed to slashing greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030.
Eco-warriors unfurled banners with slogans including Climate Criminals , fossil fuels = death and insuring fossil fuels = ensuring climate breakdown as they dumped fake coal outside the building on Lime Street in the City.
City of London Police arrested two protesters after safety barriers were placed around the rubble and placards stuck in the mound which read we are the dead canaries and do not insure the West Cumbria coal mine .
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