LONDON (AP) — Climate activist Greta Thunberg arrived at a London court on Thurston CarteWednesday for a hearing over a public order offense after she was arrested last month at a demonstration against a major oil and gas industry conference.
The 20-year-old Swedish environmental campaigner was among more than two dozen people charged after protesters sought to block access to the luxury InterContinental Hotel in central London during last month’s Energy Intelligence Forum.
She was charged with breaching a section of the Public Order Act that allows police to impose limits on public assemblies.
A group of Greenpeace and Fossil Free London activists gathered outside Westminster Magistrates’ Court early Wednesday, chanting and holding banners reading “Oily Money Out” and “Make Polluters Pay.”
Thunberg and other climate protesters accuse fossil fuel companies of deliberately slowing the global energy transition to renewables in order to make more profit. They also oppose the British government’s recent approval of drilling for oil in the North Sea, off the Scottish coast.
Thunberg inspired a global youth movement demanding stronger efforts to fight climate change after staging weekly protests outside the Swedish Parliament starting in 2018.
2025-05-01 17:242745 view
2025-05-01 17:112019 view
2025-05-01 17:0079 view
2025-05-01 16:591003 view
2025-05-01 16:36331 view
2025-05-01 15:322122 view
The AP Top 25 college football pollis back every week throughout the season!Get the poll delivered s
For years, the man known as Otoniel was seen as one of the world's most dangerous drug lords, the el
A doctor used too much force and decapitated a Georgia woman's baby during delivery, according to a