LONDON — Four climatechange activists scaled gates at Queen Elizabeth II’s Buckingham Palace home Saturday and locked themselves to railings in a protest demanding more urgent action to cut greenhouse-gas emissions.
Members of the group from the Climate Siren environmentalist movement wore T-shirts with the slogan “Climate emergency. 10 percent annual emission cuts” and chanted through a bullhorn.
London’s Metropolitan Police said the four had climbed up a gate at the front of thepalace and secured themselves to it, sitting with their legs through the railings.
The protesters unfurled a banner quoting a 2008 speech by Prince Charles, the queen’s son and heir, warning about a lack of progress on tackling climate change. It read: “The doomsday clock of climate change is ticking ever faster towards midnight.”
In a letter to the queen posted on the group’s website, the activists said they were carrying out their protest in the hope of drawing attention to stalled progress on environmental issues.
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