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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and Ugandan climate activist Patience Nabukalu take part in a demonstration by the group 'Fridays for Future' in front of the headquarters of German retail bank Postbank in Bonn, western Germany, to demand an end of new fossil fuel funding projects by banks and states. The activists march from the United Nations campus to the Postbank (Deutsche Bank) headquarters to demand that company CEO Christian Sewing and TotalEnergies stop funding the EACOP pipeline in Uganda. IMAGES
German police officers begin removing climate activists perched precariously on high structures after they embarked on an operation to evacuate a protest camp that has become a symbol of resistance against fossil fuels. Luetzerath, a village in North Rhine-Westphalia state, has been turned over to around 2,000 anti-coal activists who are trying to prevent the site from being dug up for coal. IMAGES
The group of environmental activists Extinction Rebellion ('XR') begins ‘weekend of resistance’ with march from Trafalgar Square to Downing Street in London, to denounce the use of fossil fuels and inaction on climate change, while the country is going through a political and economic crisis linked to the rise in energy prices that just led Prime Minister Liz Truss fired her Finance minister. IMAGES
Extinction Rebellion climate activists gather outside the Bank of England in London on the final day of their new series of "mass rebellions". IMAGES
Thousands of European climate activists gather to blockade a huge German open-cast coal mine and plant in a campaign of non-violent mass civil disobedience. IMAGES of protesters
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