As Europe Heats Up, Silencing Climate Activists is Emerging as a Troubling Trend | Human Rights Watch
No major emitter country has decarbonised enough to meet the 2015 Paris climate agreement goals.
In response, climate activists are using protests, campaigning and civil disobedience to try to focus public debate and spur urgent state action on phasing out of fossil fuels and protecting carbon sinks like forests.
In turn, some European states have reacted with heavy-handed policing, and by effectively criminalising such activism, seeking to dissolve groups, imposing restrictions on protests, and conducting smear campaigns. This creates serious risks to environmental activism and civil society as a whole and undercuts vital efforts to address the climate crisis.
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