Anna Galkina of
said outside the conference:
“Shell’s role today is outrageous. Shell sponsors climate conferences and art galleries in order to prevent real climate action: leaving fossil fuels in the ground. Why are the people profiting from climate change celebrated as corporate sponsors, while the frontline communities aren’t even invited?”
Bill McKibben will speak later today at both King’s College London and the London School of Economics and Politics, where students are campaigning for their university’s endowments to divest from destructive fossil fuel companies like Shell.
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