People from across Wales joined the demonstration for climate justice today (Saturday 12th November) as part of a global day of action coinciding with the COP27 UN global climate summit taking place in Egypt.
The Cardiff demonstration – timed to match similar demonstrations taking place across the world – assembled at 12 noon at City Hall to listen to some speakers and set off by 12.30am, snaking around the museum and Park Place, onto Queen Street and finally down The Hayes, stopping at Central Library by 1pm for a rally. These are the brilliant photographs of the day by Tom Davies.
Speakers highlighted the urgent need for a fast and globally fair transition to a climate friendly economy and steps we can take in Cardiff to build a safe and healthy world.
Shavanah Taj general secretary TUC Cymru, addressed the crowd:
“We need a Worker-led Justice Transition – rewiring our system in a way that addresses injustices, poverty and inequalities,” she said. “Local and global justice must be at the heart of this transition, through people-owned decentralised energy systems, expansion of care services, locally-sourced food, and green and affordable housing and public transport.”
The day of action had been organised by the Climate Justice Coalition, who said: :
“Global temperatures, rising. Energy bills, rising. Billionaire profits, rising. While people are being forced to choose between heating and eating, energy companies are making record-breaking profits.
From bailouts to big business, ramping up more deadly fossil fuels to trashing nature and cutting our wages the Government is refusing to listen. Their policies both here and globally are causing devastation with working people and people of colour – who have contributed the least to the problem – paying the price with killer famines, floods, crop failures, fires and rising poverty.
To stop this crisis we need action that cuts carbon, tackles inequality and ends the injustices baked into our world.”
