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Just Stop Oil activists are arrested on the day of Charles III's coronation in London. One protester shouts "I have nothing against the coronation, just to hold up a banner, is all I wanted to do. And that's because four billion people are watching." IMAGES
The group of environmental activists Extinction Rebellion ('XR') begins ‘weekend of resistance’ with march from Trafalgar Square to Downing Street in London, to denounce the use of fossil fuels and inaction on climate change, while the country is going through a political and economic crisis linked to the rise in energy prices that just led Prime Minister Liz Truss fired her Finance minister. IMAGES
Two activists from Just Stop Oil, a movement campaigning against fossil fuels, have glued themselves to the frame of a Vincent Van Gogh painting at the Courtauld Gallery in London, calling for the government to end new fossil fuel projects, and for art institutions to join them in civil resistance. IMAGES
Greta Thunberg protests alongside fellow climate activists outside the Standard Chartered Bank Headquarters in London ahead of the COP26 climate conference. IMAGES
With three weeks to go before the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, thousands of people protest in Brussels over the environment, led by the Climate Coalition, an umbrella organisation of more than 80 civil society organisations. IMAGES