- She joined a protest outside JP Morgan demanding it stop financing fossil fuels
Greta Thunberg has taken part in another protest against climate change a day after being charged with a public order offence.
The Swedish activist, 20, has joined a protest outside JP Morgan demanding the bank stop financing fossil fuels.
She stood outside the entrance to Canary Wharf with the group Fossil Free London on Thursday morning.
They tried to block the bank’s entrances by sitting on the sidewalk and chanting “Oily money out” and waving yellow flags and banners.
It comes just one day after Thunberg – whose address was given by police as ‘Dorset’ – was charged with failing to comply with a condition for public gatherings following a protest outside a central London hotel on Tuesday.
Scotland Yard said protesters were asked to move from the road to the pavement to avoid breaching the conditions.
Climate activist Greta Thunberg joins Fossil Free London protesters in a demonstration outside JPMorgan’s Canary Wharf offices
Climate activists, including Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg
She stood outside the entrance to Canary Wharf with the group Fossil Free London on Thursday morning
Swedish activist, 20, has joined a protest outside JP Morgan demanding the bank stop financing fossil fuels
Climate activists, including Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, hold banners and chant slogans on October 19
Thunberg was one of 26 people charged after Tuesday’s rally outside the InterContinental Hotel in Park Lane, where a large gathering of oil executives took place.
At today’s demonstration outside JP Morgan, demonstrators said the bank has been a major source of financing for fossil fuel projects since the Paris Agreement, when governments agreed to limit global average temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial level.
Fossil Free London campaigner Henry, who declined to give his surname, said: ‘Since the Paris climate agreement they have been the worst financiers of fossil fuels, with $434 billion (£357 billion) in finance.
‘They are making billions in profits every year at a time of rising inequality, while much of the world is being devastated by the climate crisis.
‘We believe that no new investment or financing in fossil fuels should come from JP Morgan and we believe that a portion of their billions in profits should go towards loss and damage to the communities affected by climate change and provide funding for adaptation and mitigation measures.”
JP Morgan declined to comment.
Thunberg was charged with failing to comply with a condition for public meetings after a protest on Tuesday
Greta Thunberg, wearing a large badge reading ‘Oily Money Out’, is led away from the Intercontinental Hotel Park Lane by two Met police officers
The 20-year-old Swedish activist was led to a police van as activists looked on
Thunberg protested again on Thursday morning
Banners read ‘their profit, our loss’ and ‘stop financing fossil fuels’
After Tuesday’s meeting, Thunberg was charged with failing to comply with a condition imposed under Article 14 of the Public Order Act.
Officers said they asked protesters to move from the road to the sidewalk, which would have allowed them to continue protesting legally.
They said they had imposed conditions to ‘avoid inconvenience to the public’.
She was bailed to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on November 15.
A Met Police spokesperson said: ‘We have charged 26 people following a protest outside a hotel in central London.
‘Officers responded to the protest on Tuesday morning, October 17, and imposed conditions to prevent disruption to the public.
“The demonstrators were asked to move from the road to the sidewalk so that they could continue their demonstration without violating the conditions.”