Activist protest in Davos over 'ignored' climate issues

(26 May 2022)
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Davos – 26 May 2022
1. Various of protesters holding signs, protesters speaking and chanting; UPSOUND (English): "Keep it in the ground, let's keep it in the ground" ++INCLUDES EXPLETIVE ON PLACARD++
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Ilyess El Kortbi, Ukrainian climate activist living in Germany:
"We need urgent action now. We need to switch to renewables. Renewables are no longer the solution of the future because the climate crisis is happening here and now in Europe and you can see it on the example of Ukraine, in the forefront. The war in Ukraine is happening on very fast pace but it is just one of the layers of the upcoming climate crisis and it is a threat for the security of Europe."
3. Protesters holding signs
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ilyess El Kortbi, Ukrainian climate activist living in Germany:
"I was thinking that the conferences of parties like the COP conferences are the worst places with empty words and empty promises but when I came to World Economic Forum, I saw that this bottom of the worst things that can happen was just drilled by this event here because people ignore the facts. People continue to speak as if nothing happens while children, families die every day in Ukraine and lose their future just as I lost my future."
5. Protesters holding signs
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Vanessa Nakate, climate activist from Uganda:
"Remember that the people in this place, it's all about business, it's all about profit. But then where the priority is in profit and business, then it means more people are going to continue suffering with droughts and cyclones and floods and, you know, loss of their cultures and loss of their islands. So we have to keep speaking and we have to keep holding the leaders accountable for them to know that we want climate justice and we want it now and we are not going to give up on dreaming about the future that we want but also we are not going to give up on fighting for that future."
7. Protesters applauding
8. Protesters holding signs
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Helena Gualinga, climate activist from Ecuador:
"Worth it? I think it is essential, I think it's an essential part of the conversation, it's an essential part of the solution. We're not going to be able to find the solutions that we need if the people that are affected by climate change, by the fossil fuels industry are not directly active in the decision making, if they don't have a seat at the table."
10. Tilt-down from sign reading (English): "Hub Culture Davos Summer Campus;" to Nakate and Gualinga on panel
11. Nakate on panel
12. Various of audience, panel
STORYLINE:
About 50 climate activists gathered in Davos on Thursday to highlight issues they said were largely ignored during this week's World Economic Forum in the Swiss town.
The issues included human suffering, particularly in developing countries, from severe weather events like heatwaves and drought; reparations to poor countries that have contributed little to global warming but are suffering some of the worse effects, and plans at a government level to move away from fossil fuels.
"Keep it in the ground, let's keep it in the ground!" some chanted at the gathering, about a 10-minute walk from the main convention centre, where meetings between politicians, business leaders, scientists, academics, journalists and others took place from Monday through to Thursday.
El Kortbi, who said two of his friends had died in the war, argued that the war would not have happened had the European Union fully moved away from fossil fuels.

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