“PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING”: THOUSANDS OF PROTESTERS MARCH IN ROME AMID G20 SUMMIT

Sat 30 October 2021:

On Saturday, tens of thousands of climate activists and anti-G-20 protesters marched through Rome’s streets, criticizing the world’s biggest economies’ lack of action on climate change.

This weekend, Italy will host the Group of 20 – a group of the world’s most powerful economies – ahead of the UN climate change meeting next week.

Protesters took to the streets to make their concerns heard as officials prepared to discuss climate change and the COVID-19 recovery.

Viola Del Vescovo, an Extinction Rebellion protester, said “it says a lot the fact that 30 years of conferences on climate brought nothing, emissions are still increasing, the climate crisis is continuing, social injustice widened the gaps and a growing number of people are suffering.”

Fridays for Future, Extinction Rebellion, and other activists have claimed that world leaders are not doing enough to address the climate catastrophe.

The G20 leaders were welcomed by Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi in Rome’s “La Nuvola” convention center, which was sealed off from the rest of the capital.

Prior to the UN climate meeting, Italy believes the G20 can get critical commitments from nations representing 80% of the world economy — and accountable for around the same proportion of global carbon emissions.

As soon as the G20 summit concludes, the majority of the heads of state and government in Rome will travel to Glasgow for the climate meeting.

(with agency)

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