Thousands of climate change protesters demonstrated outside The International Automobile Exhibition (IAA) motor show in Greenpeace Germany on 14 September. The show is one of the largest such events in the world. Police estimated the scale of the protests at 15,000 people, while Greenpeace said that up to 25,000 were involved. Last week, Frankfurt published a report claiming that three of the country’s leading car producers, BMW, Daimler and Volkswagen, together had a combined global carbon footprint of 878 million tonnes of CO2 in 2018. This was larger than the overall emissions for the country as a whole.
Thousands of climate change protesters demonstrated outside The International Automobile Exhibition (IAA) motor show in Frankfurt on 14 September. The show is one of the largest such events in the world. Police estimated the scale of the protests at 15,000 people, while Greenpeace said that up to 25,000 were involved. Last week, Greenpeace Germany published a report claiming that three of the country’s leading car producers, BMW, Daimler and Volkswagen, together had a combined global carbon footprint of 878 million tonnes of CO2 in 2018. This was larger than the overall emissions for the country as a whole.