[rad-green] Decrying EU Proposal to Address Climate Crisis by 2050 as 'Too Little Too Late,' Greenpeace Activists Stage #HouseOnFire Demonstration

*https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/12/12/decrying-eu-proposal-address-climate-crisis-2050-too-little-too-late-greenpeace
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Dreams          December 12, 2019Decrying EU Proposal to Address Climate
Crisis by 2050 as 'Too Little Too Late,' Greenpeace Activists Stage
#HouseOnFire Demonstration"The world is on fire and our governments are
letting it burn."by Eoin Higgins, staff writer*

[image: Greenpeace activists on Thursday wrap the E.U. summit venue in
Brussels with images of giant flames, setting off clouds of smoke, flares
and sounding a fire alarm to urge European government leaders to take
immediate action to respond to the climate emergency.]

*Greenpeace activists on Thursday wrap the E.U. summit venue in Brussels
with images of giant flames, setting off clouds of smoke, flares and
sounding a fire alarm to urge European government leaders to take immediate
action to respond to the climate emergency. (Photo: Eric De
Mildt/Greenpeace
<https://media.greenpeace.org/collection/27MZIFJ8H3SVT?_ga=2.158988474.1273420428.1576166661-632546471.1576166661#/SearchResult&ALID=27MZIFJ8H3SVT&_ga=&VBID=27MZVNHYWBH3&POPUPPN=11&POPUPIID=27MZIFJ8AGWRE>)*

Greenpeace activists on Thursday dropped banners and held flares in an
attempt to make the Europa building in Brussels, Belgium appear to be on
fire as the continent's leaders gathered to address the planetary emergency.

"The world is on fire and our governments are letting it burn," Greenpeace
EU director Jorgo Riss said in a statement.

Protesters arrived at the building Thursday morning in a vintage fire
engine. The 61 demonstrators came from seven countries, according to
<https://www.greenpeace.org/eu-unit/issues/climate-energy/2523/activists-take-climate-emergency-to-eu-summit/>
Greenpeace
EU. Twenty-eight climbers "scaled the summit venue and wrapped the building
with images of giant lapping red and yellow flames, setting off billowing
clouds of black and white smoke, red distress flares, and sounding a loud
fire alarm," the group said in a statement.

WARNING: CLIMATE DELAYERS INSIDE

European leaders are stuck discussing climate targets… for 2050?!

If we don't decrease EU emissions to at least 65% by 2030, it's going to be
very difficult to get to zero by 2040 #HouseOnFire
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/HouseOnFire?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw> #EUCO
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/EUCO?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
#ClimateEmergency
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/ClimateEmergency?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
#COP25 <https://twitter.com/hashtag/COP25?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
pic.twitter.com/MEqx4kzRwX <https://t.co/MEqx4kzRwX>

— Greenpeace EU (@GreenpeaceEU) December 12, 2019
<https://twitter.com/GreenpeaceEU/status/1205063064099467265?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>


It's a big week for the climate crisis in Europe as the region's leaders
are debating action at both the United Nation's COP 25 gathering in Madrid,
Spain and the European Union summit in Brussels.

According to <https://apnews.com/2480694ecec31d7ddc9891e8c1696320> *The
Associated Press*, E.U. Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen is fighting
to get support for a carbon-neutral plan, but is facing particular
resistance from  Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic who object to a
clean energy transition by voicing cost concerns.

To get the support of all E.U. members, von der Leyen on Wednesday unveiled
a new "European Green Deal" she called a "master plan," with an offer of
some 100 billion euros ($130 billion) in public and private funds to help
the fossil-fuel reliant E.U. nations make the transition to lower emissions.

"It's not enough for them to commit to a climate neutral E.U. in 2050,"
said Riss. "The presidents and prime ministers in Brussels today will be
long gone by then. What counts even more is the urgent action they take
now, while they are in power."

Fifty of the demonstrators, including all 28 climbers, were arrested.

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