A group of climate activists led by Greta Thunberg blocked the Swedish Parliament's entrance in Stockholm on Monday (Mar. 11) to call for sweeping reforms to tackle climate disasters.
Thunberg and around 40 other activists held signs reading "Climate Justice Now" as they sat in front of at least two entrances to the 349-seat Riksdagen, including the main doorway. Local media added that lawmakers were able to use other entries into the assembly.
"The climate justice movement has, for decades, been repeating the same message over and over again, like a broken record, and we feel like we are not being heard," Thunberg told the Associated Press.
Climate protesters have long accused fossil fuel companies of deliberately slowing the global energy transition to renewables in order to make more profit.
Thunberg, 21, has been an icon of the climate activist movement ever since she was still a teenager. She and her group have been staging weekly protests outside the Riksdagen since 2018.
She has repeatedly been fined in Sweden and the UK for disobedience to law enforcement in connection with protests. Earlier this year, she was acquitted of refusing to follow a police order to leave a protest blocking the entrance to a major oil and gas industry conference in London, with the judge citing "significant deficiencies in the evidence."
Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristenssen is in Brussels on Monday to attend to Sweden's official inclusion into the NATO alliance.
