Thousands of campaigners flocked to the streets of Brussels on Sunday to demand immediate action on climate change.
According to local police, over 65,000 protesters took to the streets of the Belgian capital. They carried banners reading ‘There is no planet B’ while chanting slogans such as: ‘We are hotter than the climate.’
For one activist, Brieuc Wathelet, the government needs to act on climate change and to apply “measures that would allow the earth temperature to fall by 1.5 degrees Celsius.”
Members of several climate change NGO’s and associations took part in the protest which fell on the eve of the ‘COP24’ United Nations Climate summit held in the Polish coal city of Katowice.