Climate protests
Issue 136: Singapore Budget 2025 funds sustainability for the long term; nuclear gains momentum
This week in ESG: Climate and energy trust funds receive substantial top-ups; government steps up assessment of nuclear power
Airports, Wall Street and Olympics in crosshairs of climate activists
CLIMATE activists in the United States and Europe are planning protests at airports, banks and the Olympic Games in a summer of stunts they have defended as necessary even if their tactics differ.
Stonehenge monument sprayed orange in UK climate protest
UNITED Kingdom police arrested two people on Wednesday (Jun 19) after environmental activists sprayed an orange substance on Stonehenge, the renowned prehistoric Unesco world heritage site in southwes...
Top climate fundraiser offers defence of disruptive protests
For years, Margaret Klein Salamon laboured behind the scenes to try to convince politicians about the existential threat posed by climate change.
Greenpeace activists climb Deutsche Bank building to protest against investment policies
Greenpeace activists scaled Deutsche Bank’s headquarters in Frankfurt on Wednesday (Jun 14) and strung up a large yellow banner to protest against the climate investment policies of the German lender ...
French police use tear gas on protesters at oil giant's meeting
THE annual general meeting of TotalEnergies opened on Friday (May 26) in Paris after police teargassed climate activists, as the oil giant also faces pressure from the French government to speed up th...
Why Dutch farmers turned their flag upside down
In some important ways, the Netherlands looks like a test case
Latest wave of climate protests disrupt German airports
Two of Germany’s biggest airports suffered security breaches after climate protesters broke through the airfield’s security perimeter and glued themselves to aircraft taxiways.
How do you tell a vandal from a visitor? Art museums are struggling
It’s not easy to stop a determined climate protester, museum directors say, even as they fear for their masterpieces.
Greta Thunberg, 600 youths sue Sweden for climate inaction
MORE than 600 young people in Sweden, including climate activist Greta Thunberg, on Friday (Nov 25) filed a lawsuit against the Swedish state accusing it of climate inaction, a first in the country.
