A Greenpeace activist carried out a spectacular action in the center of Madrid on Monday. He climbed 30 meters high to walk on a cable suspended between two buildings in the Plaza de España. The police had to block traffic.
With the action of this tightrope walker, the environmental NGO wanted to warn that the annual climate summit, COP30, which begins this Monday in the Brazilian city of Belém, puts “the planet on a razor’s edge”. This year’s summit will be held at a time when the alarm has been raised about global warming, but also at a time when the international fight against climate change is at its worst stage since at least the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2015.
Greenpeace urged governments gathered at COP to “end fossil fuels and end deforestation before 2030”. “Even though the planet is in a fragile ecological balance and warning signs are accumulating in the form of floods, floods, heat waves and other extreme phenomena, we have the tools necessary to avoid worst-case scenarios,” Eva Saldaña, executive director of Greenpeace Spain, said in a statement Monday. “We just need the political will and international cooperation to put the protection of life before special economic interests,” he added.
