Extinction Rebellion members glue themselves to London Stock Exchange

Members of Extinction Rebellion have glued themselves to the London Stock Exchange as part of protests against climate change.

The group, which disrupted hundreds of thousands of commuters in the capital last week, said yesterday that it had decided to end its demonstrations.

On Thursday morning, two men and five women glued themselves to a wall and to each other.

They wore LED signs reading: "Climate emergency", "Tell the truth" and "You can't eat money".

Rebels also climbed onto a DLR train in Canary Wharf holding signs saying "business as usual = death" and "don't jail the canaries".

The group says there will be small "actions" like this across financial district today.

It is part of co-ordinated action against the financial industry, which Extinction Rebellion claims facilitates climate change.

Demonstrators will swarm into the Square Mile to cause roadblocks, targeting big businesses and banking.

The action in the City of London is likely to last a few hours, the group said, and comes on the day it is due to end blockades at Parliament Square and Marble Arch.

A spokeswoman for the group said: "There's a public event which is what we are calling swarming, where at different locations in the City people will swarm into the roads and block the roads."

She added that the financial industry is being targeted because it is "responsible for funding climate and ecological destruction".

"We're asking the government to take action to address the climate emergency."

Eco-protesters want urgent action to halt climate change and to stop the decline in biodiversity, and have called on the government to reduce UK carbon emissions to net zero by 2025.

Among their supporters are actress Emma Thompson and 16-year-old activist Greta Thunberg, who started a school strike movement by skipping lessons to demonstrate outside the Swedish parliament for months.

In a statement announcing the end of their action , the group said: "We know we have disrupted your lives. We do not do this lightly. We only do this because this is an emergency.

"Around the planet, a long-awaited and much-needed conversation has begun."

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