Five local weather activists from the Fridays for Future motion together with Greta Thunberg disrupted Scandinavian Airlines’ (SAS) normal assembly of shareholders in Sweden on Monday, saying the corporate is projecting a false picture of environmental sustainability.
They have been allowed to attend the assembly on the firm’s headquarters in Frosundavik close to Stockholm as a result of Fridays for Future holds shares within the airline.
Other individuals demanded that the activists go away the venue or “respect the agenda.”
Some of the activists held up banners, together with one saying “Stop lying.”
Thunberg addressed SAS CEO Anko van der Werff instantly with out asking permission.
She stated there aren’t any environmentally sustainable flights, asking what SAS may do to scale back its flights within the coming years.
“SAS has done a lot to comply with the Paris Agreement and we have acted in such a way as to be in line with the guidelines set out in the agreement. Flying is important. It is important to bring the world together,” stated der Werff.
Thunberg questioned how the SAS board can sleep at evening whereas individuals, in accordance with her, are already dying from the local weather disaster.
“Why don’t you respect our future? Why do you only rely on clichés? You don’t listen to us or to the research,” she stated.
Young individuals from the motion together with Thunberg demonstrated Monday morning exterior previous to the assembly, saying the corporate lacks practical plans to scale back its emissions.
Kevin Anderson, professor of Energy and Climate Change on the University of Manchester, stated in a joint press launch with the motion {that a} discount in flying is critical.
“Aviation is the only sector where there are no technical possibilities to reduce total emissions on the timeline of the scientific emission budgets associated with the Paris Agreement. The only realistic option for the sector to do its fair share in keeping the temperature rise below 1.5 to 2C is to drastically reduce demand; anything less than this is just another scam,” he stated.
Fridays for Future is a youth-led motion that began in 2018 after 15-year-old Greta Thunberg and different younger activists sat in entrance of the Swedish parliament, or Riksdag, in Stockholm each faculty day for 3 weeks to protest in opposition to the dearth of motion on the local weather disaster.
The Paris Agreement is a world local weather settlement that was concluded in 2015 throughout the UN Climate Conference and states that the worldwide temperature improve have to be saved under 2C and that efforts have to be made to restrict it to 1.5C (2.7F).
Last week, Fridays for Future demonstrated exterior the Riksdag. Thunberg was then taken away by the police.
Source: www.anews.com.tr