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COLLABORATION

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Vaccine inequity and online linkups during the pandemic have spurred greater coordination between activists in wealthy nations and developing countries, he added.

“This global movement will use the COP26 momentum to bring climate action and equity back to the forefront, in whatever way necessary,” he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

But the pandemic is still shaping how protests happen.

Ende Gelaende, for instance, insists on testing, face masks and social distancing for its actions.

Extinction Rebellion spokeswoman Nuala Gathercole Lam said the pandemic had been “a big obstacle” - although the group has continued to mount actions like a blockade of print works used by Rupert Murdoch’s News UK group in 2020.

FOSSIL FUEL FINANCE

As Britain’s COVID-19 restrictions have eased, Gathercole Lam said “fresh waves of climate activists” were getting involved as the group prepares to take to the streets again in the week of Aug. 23 to oppose fossil fuel finance.

Despite a recent report by the International Energy Agency (IEA) calling for an end to new fossil fuel investments, about $600 billion has gone into new gas fields, pipelines and LNG facilities under development, according to analytics firm GlobalData.