New York climate protest calls for ending fossil fuels

(18 Sep 2023)
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1. Protesters marching
HEADLINE: New York climate protest calls for ending fossil fuels
2. Protesters playing drums
3. Various of protesters holding placards and banners marching
ANNOTATION: Some 75,000 people flooded the streets of midtown Manhattan for the March to End Fossil Fuels.
ANNOTATION: The demonstration kicked off the Climate Week as world leaders started to gather in New York for the United Nations General Assembly.
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Vanessa Nakate, Ugandan climate activist:
“Many of them will talk about solutions but they won’t talk about the elephants in the room. And the elephant is fossil fuels that are heavily responsible for the climate crisis."
5. Climate activist Emma Buretta speaks on megaphone
6. Placard
ANNOTATION: The protest called on President Joe Biden to take action to phase out fossil fuels and address environmental injustice.
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Emma Buretta, Climate activist:
“What he needs to do in order to earn youth votes and win the 2023 election is to end fossil fuels.”
8. Various of protest
ANNOTATION: Environmental activists calculate that the U.S. is responsible for nearly a third of the world’s planned drilling for oil and gas through 2050.
STORYLINE:
Some 75,000 people flooded the streets of midtown Manhattan for the March to End Fossil Fuels.

The demonstration kicked off the Climate Week as world leaders started to gather in New York for the United Nations General Assembly.

The protest called on President Joe Biden to take action to phase out fossil fuels and address environmental injustice.

Environmental activists calculate that the U.S. is responsible for nearly a third of the world’s planned drilling for oil and gas through 2050.

AP video shot by Mary Conlon

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