Greenpeace activists staged a remarkable action in central Madrid this Monday. He climbed 30 meters to walk on a cable suspended between two buildings in Plaza Espanya. Police had to block traffic.
In response to this tightrope act, environmental NGOs wanted to warn that the annual climate summit COP30, which begins this Monday in the Brazilian city of Belem, will be about “the planet walking a tightrope.” This year’s summit comes at a time of heightened alarm over global warming, but also at a time when the international fight against climate change is at its worst since at least the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2015.
Greenpeace called on governments meeting at the COP to “phase out fossil fuels and end deforestation by 2030.” “Although the Earth is in a fragile ecological balance and warning signs are accumulating in the form of floods, floods, heatwaves and other extreme events, we have the necessary tools to avoid the worst-case scenario,” Eva Saldaña, executive director of Greenpeace Spain, said in a statement on Monday. “We need political will and international cooperation to prioritize the protection of life over special economic interests,” he added.
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