
Greta Thunberg attends second climate change protest in London this week
Greta Thunberg took part in her second climate change protest in London this week, protesting outside JP Morgan's headquarters in Canary Wharf.
The Swedish activist appeared undeterred after being arrested after Tuesday's protest and subsequently charged with public order offenses, joining other activists in east London's financial district on Thursday morning.
Protesters outside the JPMorgan building on Bank Street chanted "Change your diet, protect the climate, feed the rich" as financial services workers walked past on their way to their desks.
They gave passing workers ``Free Money'' and ``Climate Chaos Bank'' 10 pound notes with the inscription ``We undertake to pay the holder the amount of loss and damage on demand.'' personally delivered. Free London, which organized the protest, told the Guardian: "We are standing here in front of JP Morgan, the worst financier of fossil fuels in the last seven years since the last Paris Agreement. Because of this,” he said. , and this company makes tens of billions of dollars in profits every year.
“We know that London is the heaving engine of financing for fossil fuel companies and as you know we have been protesting at the Oil & Money conference [Energy Intelligence Forum] and JP Morgan have been represented at the conference.
“We are saying at this time of massive inequality and climate change that is damaging the global south, here and now, that we need them to pay for loss and damage for the communities and people affected with some of their profits.”
Canary Wharf`s private security workers directed JP Morgan employees to alternative entrances. Police arrived at about 9am and did not immediately begin making arrests.
Thunberg declined to comment but stood at the doors of the building chatting to fellow activists and joining in chants including: “Profits rise and we get poor, climate crisis is class war” and “Oily, oily money. Out, out, out.”
At the same time, across London, doctors and other healthcare workers affiliated with Extinction Rebellion staged a “die-in” and “climate inquest” outside the InterContinental Park Lane, the venue for the Energy Intelligence Forum.
On the street in front of the hotel's main entrance, 14 people lay wrapped up like wounded in a field hospital, others surrounding them in an air of concern for their fallen colleagues. .
After the lawsuit, the organization planned to submit a letter to JPMorgan Chase's head of sustainability, Luke Nelson, stating: “And operates outside international law. What will JPMorgan do now to avoid such a judgment?”