Protesters have created a “climate justice memorial” in the City of London to protest against the financing of fossil fuel industries ahead of Cop26.
Activists from environmental groups including Pacific Climate Warriors, Coal Action Network and Extinction Rebellion laid wreaths and flowers at the entrance of the Lloyd’s headquarters in what they described as a “climate justice memorial”.
“We want to commemorate and commiserate the homes and lives lost to the climate crisis,” one Extinction Rebellion member said on Friday.
Lloyd’s is an insurance market which Coal Action Network, one of the protest’s organisers, claims “underwrites the majority of the world’s most climate-wrecking projects”.
The demonstrations are part of global action
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