A thousand people demonstrated on Saturday in the Canadian metropolis, where the COP15 is held on biodiversity.
by Hélène Jouan (Montreal, Correspondent) and Perrine Mouterde
The march for the living, organized at the call of the COP15 collective, a hundred Canadian and international environmental organizations, was to be the highest point of the mobilization of civil society in the middle of the conference of the parties on the current biodiversity to Montreal. The Montreal Raging Grannies (“raging grandmothers”) warm the atmosphere by singing Bring Back My Planet on the air of the Beatles; “We are only one with the planet,” chant to the sound of their Aboriginal drum at the top of the walk, but they are barely a little thousand, Saturday December 10, to have braved the icy temperature (- 14 ° C ) to proclaim the urgency to save nature.
Far from the Raz de Marée in September 2019, when half a million citizens, including Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, had demonstrated in the Quebec metropolis in favor of the fight against climate change. “Greta is not there, it is the World Cup of football and it is cold, advances Guy Laffont, an environmental activist, to explain the relative success of the walking, but the important thing remains at the end of the week , the whole world agrees on a binding declaration that can save our planet. “
Since the delegates of the 196 countries began to “clean” the project of agreement, still inflated at the opening of the COP on December 7 of hundreds of hooks reflecting the extent of the disagreements between the parties, at the ‘Exterior of the Montreal Congress Palace, NGOs, Environmental Associations, Unions, Students and Aboriginal people have multiplied events – films, debates, meetings -, to call them to show ambition.
Only a few dozen demonstrators of the anti -capitalist and ecologist coalition against COP15 have repeatedly tried, in vain, to disturb the work of the conference to denounce its hypocrisy. In the middle of the week, Greenpeace has deployed a large banner in downtown Montreal, a healthy man and animals on one side, in the skeleton on the other, to demand that “world leaders make us leave this extinction highway “. Margaret Atwood, author of the scarlet servant, very involved in the defense of the old forests of her British Columbia province, took advantage of a conference on the protection of birds in cities to send a message of encouragement to all protectors of nature.
letters from citizens
After having crisscrossed the country from west to east, Vancouver in British Columbia, a Canadian province harshly touched by climate change, in Halifax in Nova Scotia affected by the erosion of its coasts, three cars chartered by nature Canada arrived in Montreal on Wednesday, their holdings full of bags of letters from citizens, intended for the Canadian government.
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