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Paris police fire tear gas to disperse climate protesters trying to block an annual general meeting of French oil giant TotalEnergies. IMAGES
Climate change campaigners target the UK headquarters of oil giant TotalEnergies with paint, protesting the French firm's alleged human rights violations in the construction of a contentious oil pipeline in Uganda. IMAGES
San Jose, Aug 2 (EFE).-The president of the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), the Briton Alok Sharma, highlighted on Monday the role of indigenous peoples and their knowledge of the environment, during his visit to Bolivia.Sharma was speaking at an event in the town of San José, in a rural area of the prosperous eastern region of Santa Cruz, during a visit that will later take him to Brazil.(Camera: JUAN PABLO ROCA)SHOT LIST: SOUND BITES: THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE (COP26), THE BRITISH ALOK SHARMA.B-ROLL OF THE RITUAL OF OFFERING TO THE PACHAMAMA AND THE GIFTING OF A PONCHO TO THE PRESIDENT OF COP26 IN THE LOCALITY OF SAN JOSE, IN THE EASTERN BOLIVIAN REGION OF SANTA CRUZ.
Orellana province, Dec 10 (EFE).- Elders of an indigenous group in Ecuador's northeastern Amazon region on Thursday filed an unprecedented lawsuit against Chinese-owned oil company PetroOriental, saying its operations had contributed to climate change and affected that community's way of life.It marks the first time a so-called protective action lawsuit has been filed that draws a direct link between the activities of oil companies in Ecuador and climate change. (Camera: DOMÉNICA ENRÍQUEZ). SHOT LIST: ECUADORIAN INDIGENOUS MEMBERS OF THE HUAORANI NATIVE PEOPLE'S MIWAGUNO COMMUNITY OUTSIDE A COURTHOUSE IN FRANCISCO DE ORELLANA, ECUADOR, WHERE THAT COMMUNITY FILED A CLIMATE CHANGE LAWSUIT ON 10 DECEMBER 2020 AGAINST CHINESE-OWNED OIL COMPANY PETROORIENTAL. SOUND BITE: JUAN ENOMENGA, ONE OF THE PLAINTIFFS AND LEADER OF THE MIWAGUNO COMMUNITY (IN SPANISH). TRANSLATION: The wind carries (the gas) all the way here and pollutes the water that we're drinking, because we don't have potable water here. It really affects us. The smell also is taking the animals far away. (01:21-01:35).
Footage courtest of TVNZ shows the heartbreaking scene at Farewell Spit in New Zealand's Golden Bay where hundreds of pilot whales died overnight on Thursday after being stranded on the beach in what is believed to be the largest stranding in decades. The last time such an event was recorded in New Zealand on such a large scale was in 1985, when 450 whales were washed up on the Great Barrier Island. New Zealand's Department of Conservation said that around 300 of the 416 whales were discovered dead. Local authorities and some 500 volunteers were seen attempting to save the lives of the remaining 100 or so whales on Friday. A DOC representative said that the shallowness of Golden Bay makes it particularly dangerous for whale beachings. Since 1840, over 5,000 whales and dolphins have washed up on New Zealand beaches.