With their pants down, activists in Prague protest against Trump's climate pact withdrawal

Record ID: 878072

  • Title: With their pants down, activists in Prague protest against Trump's climate pact withdrawal
  • Date: 5th June 2017
  • Summary: PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC (JUNE 5, 2017) (REUTERS) ***WARNING CONTAINS PROFANITY*** GREENPEACE ACTIVISTS PROTESTING IN FRONT OF U.S. EMBASSY IN PRAGUE CLOSE UP OF ACTIVISTS WEARING TRUMP MASKS ACTIVISTS SITTING ON TOILETS WITH BANNER BEHIND THEM READING (English): "(TRUMP) GIVE A SH1T ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE" POLICEMAN TAKING PHOTOGRAPH VARIOUS OF PROTEST / MEDIA (SOUNDBITE) (Czech) CZECH GREENPEACE SPOKESMAN, LUKAS HRABEK, SAYING: "With our action today we want to express our disagreement and our worries that Donald Trump has decided to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. We believe other states will fulfill their obligations. We also call on our politicians to engage in this theme and to ratify the climatic agreement as soon as possible." ACTIVISTS SITTING ON TOILETS SIGN READING (English) "(TRUMP) GIVE A SH1T ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE GREENPEACE PROTESTERS
  • Embargoed: 19th June 2017 11:46
  • Keywords: Paris accord climate change U.S. President Donald Trump action Greenpeace
  • Location: PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
  • City: PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
  • Country: Czech Republic
  • Topics: Environment,Climate Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA0016K04287
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: THIS EDIT CONTAINS PROFANE LANGUAGE
    Czech Greenpeace activists held a sit-down protest with a difference outside the U.S. Embassy in Prague on Monday (June 5), against U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement.
    Sitting on toilets with their pants down and wearing Trump masks, five activists demanded the U.S. president "Give a shit about climate change" and commit to reducing emissions of greenhouse gases generated by burning fossil fuels that are blamed by scientists for warming the planet.
    Trump on Thursday (June 1) said he would withdraw the United States from the landmark 2015 global agreement to fight climate change, drawing anger and condemnation from world leaders and heads of industry.
    With his action, the United States will walk away from nearly every other nation in the world on one of the pressing global issues of the 21st century. Syria and Nicaragua are the only other non-participants in the accord, signed by 195 nations in Paris in 2015.
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