Hundreds of demonstrators rallied in New Delhi yesterday, calling on the Indian government and world leaders to take urgent steps against climate change at a high-stakes UN summit next week.
Carrying placards that read “I want to save forests” and “Coal kills,” around 300 protesters shouted slogans and danced to pounding drum beats.
The protest came a day ahead of a massive rally planned today in New York called the “People’s Climate March,” with some 2,000 other marches planned around the world, including in London, Paris, Rio de Janeiro and Melbourne.
Organisers are seeking to put pressure on world leaders meeting at a UN summit in New York on Tuesday aimed at injecting momentum into struggling efforts to tackle global warming.
US President Barack Obama is to outline his vision for limiting global warming at the meeting, the first of its kind since the Copenhagen summit collapsed in disarray in 2009.
But key polluters China and India are sending lower-level representatives in a move seen as reducing the summit’s authority.
