PEOPLE from North Wales will be taking to the streets of London this weekend as part of a nationwide protest demanding the Government takes a tougher stance on climate change.

The large-scale Extinction Rebellion action will last two weeks, and will target the fossil fuel economy, calling on the Government to call off new investments and end subsidies.

A damning report by the United Nations last month found that the world has a “brief and rapidly” closing window to adapt to climate change.

Lizzy Scott, a 49-year-old gardener from Bangor, said: “We, the tax payer, are literally paying gas and oil companies to pollute.

“Those in power are not acting fast enough on the climate and ecological crisis.

“As worsening extreme weather shows, we can’t wait.

“We need to end fossil fuels, and switch to renewables, especially as we have seen how dependent we are on inhumane regimes like Russia, when we could be creating our own wind and solar energy here in the UK.”

The nonviolent protests will be asking the government to end new fossil fuel investments, and to divert tax-payer money from subsidising fossil fuels to investing in wind, tidal and solar subsidies instead.

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Elijah Everett, a 23-year-old tutor from Caernarfon, said: “I want our government to take effective action on climate change, which is already affecting poor countries who did very little to cause it.

“Extreme weather here in the UK means we need bolder measures to stop our part in it.

“The government is just not doing enough, that’s why I’m taking a week off work to go to add solidarity to the national protest.”

Heather Bolton, a grandmother and psychotherapist from Groeslon said: “Many ordinary people from North Wales are taking time off work and from their usual lives to join acts of peaceful disruption in London because the government just isn’t acting with enough seriousness.

“They are still approving further extraction of coal oil and gas, and the window for action on the ecological crisis is narrowing.

“The next few years are crucial to hold back the worst of the devastation from storms, floods, droughts, and extreme heat.

“I am going to the protest for two weeks because, although I’d much rather stay home, this is about our children’s’ future, and I don't know what else will push the Government to act urgently.

“I campaign locally and contact my MP, I've changed my lifestyle, but in the end these measures will have little impact without government action.”