Off the wire
• Feature: Italians join Global Climate March with rally in Rome  • 1st LD Writethru: EU, Turkey sign deal to stem migrant flows  • Hollande expects "political impulse" at climate talks to reach ambitious deal  • EU, Turkey sign deal to stem migrant flows  • Negotiations on Paris climate agreement starts before world leaders arrive  • Spotlight: Commonwealth summit concludes with agreement on climate change  • Israel suspends dialogue with EU over labelling settlement products  • Four out of ten Greeks disappointed with all political parties: survey  • Israel convicts Swedish citizen of spying for Lebanon's Hezbollah  • Feature: Smuggling across Lebanon-Syria borders poses security concerns  
You are here: 　 Home

Thousands take part in climate change protest in Amsterdam

Xinhua, November 30, 2015 Adjust font size:

Around 6,000 to 7,000 people demanded measures to protect the climate in a demonstration held in Amsterdam on Sunday, one day before the opening of the United Nations climate change conference in Paris.

The participants took part in a peaceful march from the Museumplein square through the city center and back again. The demonstration was organized by environmental organizations Greenpeace, Milieudefensie and development organization Oxfam Novib.

The demonstrators want people and businesses to use more wind and solar energy and less coal, oil and gas. In addition, they demand more to be done to combat deforestation and to get more money to help people directly affected by the consequences of climate change.

The demonstration on climate change in Amsterdam was one of the many in the world on Sunday. People also took to the streets in London, Berlin, Tokyo, Seoul and Melbourne. The UN climate change conference will open on Monday and run until December 11. Enditem