UK police charge climate activist Greta Thunberg after protest - Reuters UK
UK police charge climate activist Greta Thunberg after protest | Reuters
UK police charge climate activist Greta Thunberg after protest
Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg is detained during an Oily Money Out and Fossil Free London protest in London, Britain, October 17, 2023. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne Acquire Licensing Rights
LONDON, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Climate activist Greta Thunberg was charged by British police on Wednesday after she and others were arrested at a protest outside a London hotel where an oil and gas conference was taking place.
Thunberg was charged with a public order offence for failing to comply with conditions that police said had been imposed to prevent "serious disruption to the community, hotel and guests."
She has been released on bail and is due appear in court on Nov. 15.
Twenty-five other individuals were also charged in relation to Tuesday's protest, police added.
Thunberg became the face of young climate activists worldwide after staging weekly protests in front of the Swedish parliament in 2018.
This year, the 20-year-old has been detained by police or removed from protests in Sweden, Norway and Germany.
Video footage from Tuesday showed Thunberg, wearing a badge with the slogan 'Oily Money Out' standing calmly as two police officers spoke to her and still images showed her being placed in the back of a police van.
She had been protesting outside the Intercontinental Hotel in central London where the Energy Intelligence Forum was hosting a gathering of oil and gas industry leaders.
Reporting by Farouq Suleiman; Editing by Sachin Ravikumar
Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Read Next
ESG Investors Biggest polluting firms failing on short-term emissions goals -investors
Fewer than one in five of the world's biggest polluting companies have short-term emissions reductions targets in line with keeping global temperature rises below 1.5 degrees Celsius, an investor pressure group said on Wednesday.
German gas grid operator OGE joins hydrogen pipeline project
German gas grid operator Open Grid Europe (OGE) is joining its French, Spanish and Portuguese peers working to develop a multibillion-euro hydrogen pipeline connecting the Iberian peninsula to France and on to Central Europe, Chief Financial Officer Frank Reiners said on Wednesday.
Related Knowledge Center: Climate science
What began as a theory in the 1890s — that industrial emissions of carbon dioxide could increase global temperatures — had progressed to a scientific fact a century later. Scientists across a range of disciplines are studying the impact of the still-growing concentration of carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere as they call for industrial and governmental policies to slow, then halt, the warming of the planet.