Photographs from yesterday’s COP28 climate rally at Belmore Park, Sydney, Gadigal Land, where protesters called for greater action on climate change. The United Nations sponsored COP28 summit is currently underway in the oil and gas rich United Arab Emirate, where world leaders are meeting to debate the next moves to curtail fossil fuel emissions.
While the tripling of renewable energy outputs seems as though it will be agreed upon, scientists are now fearing the 2015 Paris Agreement target of 1.5 degrees Celsius increase in post-industrial global temperature is on track to be doubled to a catastrophic 3 degrees. Climate activists are demanding that during the current climate emergency, far more needs to be achieved at COP28 than is proposed.
Speakers at today’s rally included MCs Caitlin Doyle-Markwick and Harpreet Kaur Dhillon from the Sydney Climate Coalition, Aisake Nasedra who spoke on the impact on global warming on Fiji and the Pacific, Nic Clyde from Lock The Gate, Arthur Rorris from the South Coast Labour Council, and Deen Kafina, a Palestinian student activist. Welcome to Country was performed by Aunty Rhonda Dixon-Grovenor.
Under a significant police presence - nearly more police were on hand than protesters - the rally marched from Belmore Park, through the CBD to Sydney Town Hall,
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