DAVOS, Switzerland: Climate activists protested in Davos on Sunday (Jan 15) against the role of big oil firms at this week's World Economic Forum (WEF), saying they were hijacking the climate debate. Major energy firms including BP, Chevron and Saudi Aramco are among the 1,500 business leaders gathering fo
DAVOS, Switzerland: Climate activists protested in Davos on Sunday against the role of big oil firms at this week's World Economic Forum , saying they were hijacking the climate debate.
"We are demanding concrete and real climate action," said Nicolas Siegrist, the 26-year old organiser of the protest who also heads the Young Socialists party in Switzerland."They will be in the same room with state leaders and they will push for their interests," Siegrist said of the involvement of energy companies at the WEF meeting.
More than a hundred protesters gathered in a snowy Davos square chanted,"change your diet for the climate, eat the rich", while some booed oil firms cited during a speech.
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