Protesters blockaded the New Zealand Stock Exchange this morning frustrated with global inaction on climate change and
critical of market-based systems being proposed to tackle the problem.
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Demonstrators block an entrance to the New Zealand Stock Exchange.
Activists occupied an office on the second floor of the exchange and nine people were arrested blockading the south
entrance to the building.
Another group of protestors scaled the Foreign Affairs and Trade building and unfurled a large banner singling out
Fonterra as an environmental terrorist.
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Fifteen year old demonstrator Bella is arrested as police break the stock exchange blockade
Protestor Tess Munro Pedreros said she was sick of inaction and apathy towards climate change, and that the carbon
trading model advocated at Copenhagen was a false solution.
“Carbon trading means the rich will continue to profit from exploiting the planet, and nothing will be done to actually
tackle the problem.”
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This morning's protests were the culmination of New Zealand’s first National Climate Camp, which has been running in
Wellington over the last week.
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