NETHERLANDS: TWO CANADIAN ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS SET FIRE TO THEIR PASSPORTS AT THE CLIMATE CONFERENCE PRESS CENTRE

Record ID: 648625

  • Title: NETHERLANDS: TWO CANADIAN ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS SET FIRE TO THEIR PASSPORTS AT THE CLIMATE CONFERENCE PRESS CENTRE
  • Date: 24th November 2000
  • Summary: THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS (NOV. 24, 2000) (REUTERS -ACCESS ALL) 1. MCU (English) CANADIAN ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST TOOKER GOMBERG AT PRESS CENTRE AT CLIMATE CONFERENCE, SAYING: "I'm 45 years old. My name is Tooker Gomberg. And I carried the passport all my adult life, proud of my country. And now I'm ashamed." 0.18 4. GOMBERG SETTING FIRE TO HIS PASSPORT 2. CU OF GOMBERG SETTING FIRE TO HIS PASSPORT, AND SAYING: "Canada should go home. The Canadian delegation should go home. Get on the next plane and get out of here. You are not helping the climate and you are not helping the planet." 1.00 3. SV MEDIA , AUDIO OF GOMBERG EXPLAINING HIS POSITION 1.06 4. CU OF PASSPORT BURNING 1.13 5. SV GOMBERG EXPLAINING HIS POSITION 1.49 6. MCU SECURITY OFFICER WATCHING 1.54 7. MCU SECOND CANADIAN NATINAL KELLY REINHARDT BURNING HIS PASSORT AND SAYING: "I'm ashamed to be a Canadian, because Canada is not doing what it should." 2.31 8. CU FACE OF A WOMAN (UPSET), CRYING 2.39 9. SV PEOPLE LITENING TO REINHARDT 2.42 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 9th December 2000 12:00
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  • Location: THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS
  • Country: Netherlands
  • Reuters ID: LVA2V12NLCA100WX2BS67ATXZIW4
  • Story Text: Two Canadian environmental activists set fire to their
    passports at the Climate Conference press centre on Friday,
    disgusted at what they said was their government's complete
    ineffectiveness to push forward environment protection accords
    at the meeting and draw up a plan to stop the emission of
    Greenhouse gases.



    Two Canadian Nationals, Tooker Gomberg and Kelly
    Reinhardt, burnt their passports in the Conference press
    centre, protesting to what they said their government's
    failure to push forward environment protection accords.

    "I'm 45 years old. My name is Tooker Gomberg. And I
    carried the passport all my adult life, proud of my country.

    And now I'm ashamed," said Gomberg, setting his passport on
    fire.

    "I'm ashamed to be a Canadian, because Canada is not
    doing what it should," echoed another protester.

    In the meantime, the head of a U.N. climate conference
    has told delegates no final deal on fighting global warming
    was possible at negotiations due to end on Saturday, and that
    a broad political accord was the best they could hope for.

    U.N. spokesman Michael Williams said that conference
    president Jan Pronk was now hoping for a political agreement
    on compromise proposals that he had submitted, setting out a
    broad outline of what countries sought to do.

    The spokesman's comments dimmed prospects for achieving
    the conference's formal goal -- a legally-binding technical
    pact setting out concrete measures by developed countries to
    reduce emissions of heat-trapping gases implicated in global
    warming.

    Pronk made his proposals in a paper aimed at breaking a
    deadlock between the United States and the European Union over
    ways to stop global warming.


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