Local weather change protests hit Frankfurt as auto present opens

Hundreds of persons are demonstrating in Frankfurt to demand extra motion towards local weather change because the German metropolis’s auto present opens to the general public, with some biking into town alongside highways that had been quickly closed for the event.

Calls for raised by the organizers of Saturday’s protests embody an finish to the combustion engine, climate-neutral transport by 2035, a pace restrict on the autobahn and a powerful German local weather coverage bundle.

Environmental teams say the pattern towards greater and extra highly effective automobiles, significantly SUVs, is consuming into the gas effectivity positive factors of latest a long time.

On Thursday, when the Frankfurt Motor Present formally opened, Greenpeace activists unfurled giant banners branding the fashions on show “local weather killers.”