International Courant
Izmir Türkiye
5 local weather activists from the Fridays for Future motion together with Greta Thunberg disrupted Scandinavian Airways’ (SAS) basic assembly of shareholders in Sweden on Monday, saying the corporate is projecting a false picture of environmental sustainability.
They have been allowed to attend the assembly on the firm’s headquarters in Frosundavik close to Stockholm as a result of Fridays for Future holds shares within the airline.
Different members demanded that the activists go away the venue or “respect the agenda.”
A few of the activists held up banners, together with one saying “Cease mendacity.”
Thunberg addressed SAS CEO Anko van der Werff immediately with out asking permission.
She mentioned there aren’t any environmentally sustainable flights, asking what SAS might do to scale back its flights within the coming years.
“SAS has performed lots to adjust to the Paris Settlement and we now have acted in such a means as to be in step with the rules set out within the settlement. Flying is essential. It is very important carry the world collectively,” mentioned der Werff.
Thunberg questioned how the SAS board can sleep at evening whereas folks, in response to her, are already dying from the local weather disaster.
“Why do not you respect our future? Why do you solely depend on clichés? You do not hearken to us or to the analysis,” she mentioned.
Younger folks from the motion together with Thunberg demonstrated Monday morning outdoors previous to the assembly, saying the corporate lacks real looking plans to scale back its emissions.
Kevin Anderson, professor of Vitality and Local weather Change on the College of Manchester, mentioned in a joint press launch with the motion {that a} discount in flying is important.
“Aviation is the one sector the place there aren’t any technical prospects to scale back whole emissions on the timeline of the scientific emission budgets related to the Paris Settlement. The one real looking choice for the sector to do its fair proportion in maintaining the temperature rise under 1.5 to 2C is to drastically cut back demand; something lower than that is simply one other rip-off,” he mentioned.
Fridays for Future is a youth-led motion that began in 2018 after 15-year-old Greta Thunberg and different younger activists sat in entrance of the Swedish parliament, or Riksdag, in Stockholm each college day for 3 weeks to protest in opposition to the dearth of motion on the local weather disaster.
The Paris Settlement is a world local weather settlement that was concluded in 2015 throughout the UN Local weather Convention and states that the worldwide temperature improve should be saved under 2C and that efforts should be made to restrict it to 1.5C (2.7F).
Final week, Fridays for Future demonstrated outdoors the Riksdag. Thunberg was then taken away by the police.
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