CLIMATE protestors interrupted a crunch council meeting to demand action on carbon emissions.
Extinction Rebellion campaigners staged a demonstration during a meeting of Glasgow City Council's City Administration Committee as it discussed an action plan to tackle the Climate Emergency.
Three members of the group stood up in the Council Chamber for several minutes holding messages saying: ‘Too little, too late’, ‘Climate Citizens Assembly now!’ and ‘Zero emissions by 2025’.
This is the second time members of the campaign - which has become famous for its direct action protests - have disrupted council meetings in the city.
In February this year, two members of Extinction Rebellion Glasgow interrupted a committee meeting to demand urgent action on the Climate and Ecological Emergency and were invited by the chair to join the City Council Climate Emergency Working Group.
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In March they also stepped up their campaign to draw attention to the dangers of climate change by marching blue paint footsteps across Glasgow's famous George Square.
They have also blocked roads with protests and climbed the city's Finniestone crane to hang a banner.
Extinction Rebellion Scotland have carried out a series of protests
Daryl Tayar, who has been representing the Extinction Rebellion on the Working Group, said: "We have been sitting on this committee for months and we are frustrated with the slow pace of change. The City Council declared a Climate Emergency on 16 May this year but they are keeping it very quiet.
"A recent survey shows that 91 per cent of Glaswegians don’t know about the declaration. Why is the Council doing so little, so slowly and so quietly, when this is a global and local emergency?
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"We are here because we are angry, because we are grieving, because we are terrified. Our city faces the possibility of serious food shortages and flooding within the next 2-10 years unless we all join together and hold the council and the government to account".
He added: "The Council’s proposed plan is too little, too late. Thousands are already dying globally as a result of climate change. We need net zero emissions by 2025 and we need a Climate Citizens Assembly here in Glasgow on how we’re going to achieve this."
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