Cop26 protest in Faversham as climate talks continue in Glasgow
16:40, 06 November 2021
updated: 16:41, 06 November 2021
Dozens of people gathered for a protest in Faversham as talks continue at the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow.
The Global Day of Action has seen campaigners gather in towns and cities across the country calling for meaningful progress to be made among world leaders.
Around 80 people gathered in the town's market place before marching past the brewery to the creek in a bid to raise awareness about the impact of climate change on coastal communities.
Faversham has suffered severe flooding in previous years - most recently during heavy rain in August - and residents are concerned rising sea levels could make the situation even worse.
Member of Swale Friends of the Earth (FoE) are calling on the government not to approve the 40 fossil fuel projects currently in the pipeline, details of which emerged in a report just days before the conference in Scotland go under way.
Anna Stanford, Swale FoE coordinator said: "As the International Energy Agency has said, to avoid climate breakdown we need to keep all fossil fuels in the ground."
The Cop26 Coalition said around 200 events have been taking place across the UK and around the world.
The marches followed yesterday's gathering of youth activists, including Greta Thunberg and Vanessa Nakate, who marched through Glasgow protesting against investment in fossil fuels and failure to tackle the climate crisis.
Ms Thunberg called the Cop26 conference: “a global north greenwash festival, a two-week long celebration of business as usual and blah blah blah”.
The conference will continue for another week and so far world leaders have set out their plans to curb deforestation, phase out coal, end funding for fossil fuels abroad and cut methane emissions.
But there is still a significant gap between the measures countries have committed to and what is needed to avoid more than 1.5C of warming.
