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As the United Nations’ COP15 conference on biodiversity continues in Montreal, protesters gathered in Square Saint-Louis for what has been dubbed the “Large protest” by organizers.
It is one of several demonstrations being spearheaded by a grassroots’ group made up of self-described ecologists and anti-capitalists.
A few hundred participants gathered in the city square, where speeches were made decrying a lack of political will to enact climate action.
Simon Pierre Lauzon, with a group called Alternative Socialiste, told Global News he doesn’t believe COP15 — where delegates and world leaders from 200 countries work to hammer out a deal to protect the planet’s biodiversity — will lead to change.
“It basically gaslights the population into thinking that these people are going to solve anything when for the last 20 years they’ve been making goals for themselves and not actually even reaching their own objectives,” Lauzon said.
“It doesn’t matter what they say they’ll do if they don’t actually do it.”
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