Notre-Dame: a Greenpeace banner serves as a wake-up call for the government on the climate

Citizens, take actions! Surprise and stupefaction earlier this morning on Thursday July 9 when seeing Notre-Dame de Paris: four Greenpeace France activists – the French branch of the NGO for the protection of the environment – managed to get to the top of the 80-meter high crane of the worksite of the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral to unfold a huge banner saying: “Climat: aux actes!”

✊ ACTION ! Des activistes de Greenpeace se sont hissés au sommet de la grue de Notre-Dame à Paris à 80 mètres du sol pour y déployer une bannière « Climat : aux actes ! » pour dénoncer l'inaction climatique d'E. Macron #Climat #NotreDrame pic.twitter.com/pIicLyiGPr

— Greenpeace France (@greenpeacefr) July 9, 2020

Tweet reads: “ACTION! Greenpeace activists climbed up to the top of the Notre-Dame de Paris crane, 80 meters above the ground, to unfold a “Climat: aux actes!” banned to condemn E. Macron’s climate inaction”

Furthermore, Greenpeace’s activist action meets one precise goal: calling out the State, and especially its leader, Emmanuel Macron, to act as soon as possible to save the planet. One of the activists who chained himself up with metallic chains on the crane made the most of it to convey another message directly sent to the French President: “Macron, climate, Notre-Dame” the sign reads. The crane has been set next to the cathedral since the terrible fire back on April 15, 2019 in that started in the heart of the building that is almost one thousand years old.

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In concrete words, the NGO explains its motivations in a release and says that “with this action, Greenpeace directly talks to Emmanuel Macron to condemn his climate inaction”. Moreover, we remind you that Greenpeace and other militant associations have sued the government especially on that ground. To mark their words with actions.

By the way, the NGO goes on with President Macron’s part: “the president has multiplied big speeches on ecology since the very beginning of his mandate, but still objects to leading policy that is truly at the level of the climate emergency”. From now on, ecologist militants wait for actions to tune up with the president’s words.