Dozens of climate change protesters in London, Amsterdam, Sydney arrested as global mass action starts

LONDON - London police said on Monday they have arrested 21 climate activists at the start of two weeks of planned peaceful civil disobedience in London that will call for urgent government action to curb carbon emissions.

A small group of activists locked themselves to a mock nuclear missile outside the Ministry of Defence, calling on the government to redirect the funds spent on Britain's Trident nuclear submarines towards climate policy.At another location, a pair of activists parked a car in the middle of a major road and attached themselves to it. A Reuters photographer saw more than a dozen police officers surrounding the vehicle as two of them tried to cut the activists free.

"People in the environmental movement and climate scientists have been trying to persuade the public and government to take serious action and nothing has happened," he told Reuters."We want to use any way we can to make people and governments sit up and notice." Extinction Rebellion said the arrests showed that British authorities considered the group a significant movement.

Starting before dawn, the protesters in Amsterdam held pamphlets saying"SORRY that we blocked the road, but this is an emergency"."The climate crisis is not being taken seriously enough by politics, and also not by the companies. That's why I joined,"said one protester, who gave his name as Christiaan.

In Australia, hundreds of climate demonstrators blocked roads on Monday afternoon, with police in Sydney arresting 30 protesters who had refused police orders to clear the road near Central Station.

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