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CLIMATE activists protested during SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon’s daily coronavirus briefing yesterday to highlight the need for a green recovery from the pandemic in Scotland.
Members of Scottish Youth Climate Strike (SYCS) demonstrated outside the First Minister’s residences in Edinburgh.
The group organised a series of climate change strikes and demonstrations last year, including one in September, which drew thousands to cities across Scotland.
The group said it had decided to return to the streets as the Covid-19 restrictions were being lifted, calling for a “green and just recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.”
SYCS member Kay MacIver, 14, said: “As we plan our recovery from coronavirus, we have a chance to rebuild a fairer society, to enact the climate policies we urgently need to keep global warming below 1.5°C.”
Scottish Environment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham said the government was committed to learning from this experience, describing this as a chance to “build a greener society.”
