Greta Thunberg stopped during an environmentalist protest in London.

The twenty-year-old Swede was taken away in a van by Scotland Yard agents while with other protesters she blocked the main entrance of the London hotel, the InterContinental Park Lane, which is currently hosting the Energy Intelligence Forum with the leaders of the giants global oil companies, such as TotalEnergies , Shell, Eni, the Saudi Aramco, or the Norwegian Equinor.

Thunberg was also arrested and held for a few hours in her homeland this summer, on the occasion of a similar demonstration against the hydrocarbon industry.

Today she joined the young people fighting against the unchallenged use of fossil fuels . Also at the event was the Minister for Energy Security and the Zero Emissions Objective, Graham Stuart, representing the British Tory government of Rishi Sunak, accused by many of having watered down commitments on the green transition on the climate emergency.

A few hundred protesters guarded the entrances of the luxury hotel, near Hyde Park. Speaking to journalists on the sidelines of the initiative, Thunberg this morning attacked the participants in the forum, branded as a "closed-door meeting" designed to seal more or less secret agreements between politicians and "lobbyists from the destructive fossil fuel sector".

The event was organized by the environmentalist NGO Fossil Free London which in a statement pointed the finger at last year's record profits from oil & gas companies, «reinvested in the expansion of fossil fuels themselves and not in green energy», despite than promised. The activists also denounced the assignment of the presidency of Cop28, the annual international climate conference promoted by the UN (scheduled from November 30 to December 12 in Dubai) to Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, number one of the state oil giant of the United Arab Emirates .

(Unioneonline/D)