Images and videos of the Climate Guardian Angels taken at events during COP21.
One of the Angels arrested was a 75 year old mother of five, grandmother of eight and a great-grandmother of three children as well as the first person in Australia to have been arrested for taking direct action against gas fracking, and a recipient of a United Nations Association of Australia community award for her commitment to world peace and the environment. June is pictured here defying the State of Emergency ban on protesting in Paris during COP21, December 2015.
Image courtesy of Maggie Miles
Supporting a spectacular Big Oil Out of Culture action at The Louvre urging cultural institutions to reject funding derived from fossil fuels
Members of “Climacts Angels Guardians” from Australia gather at the entrance of the COP21, United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Le Bourget, outside Paris, Monday, Nov. 30, 2015. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
Supporting Avaaz’s innovative shoe exhibition, Paris’s contribution to the global ‘March for Climate’ mobilisation on 29th November 2015 during France’s ban on public marches
In protest of the deep injustice and lack of ambition inherent in the Paris Agreement, Climate Guardians led a crowd of more than 10,000 through the Paris streets on the last day of COP21, December 2015
12 Dec 2015, Paris, France — Paris, France. 12th December 2015 — Climate campaigners dressed as angels led the Red Lines climate protest on the Avenue de la Grande Armee, Paris. — Climate protesters blocked the Avenue de la Grande Armee and then marched to the Eiffel Tower, to highlight the need for a binding climate emissions agreement at the COP 21 meeting of nations in Paris. — Image by © Jo Syz/Demotix/Corbis
12 Dec 2015, Paris, France — Guardian angel of the climate holds up a red line symbolizing panetary boundries in front of estimated 15,000 demonstrators during the D12 demonstrations during the last day of COP21 on Avenue De La Grande Armée in Paris, France, on Decembe 12th, 2015. (Photo by Andre Larsson/NurPhoto) — Image by © Andre Larsson/NurPhoto/Corbis
After nearly four hours blockading Engie’s global headquarters in bitter cold, kneeling before a Parisian riot squad detailing the findings of a major report on Engie’s failings of Victoria’s Latrobe Valley community
12 Dec 2015, Paris, France — Paris, France. 12th December 2015 — Climate campaigners dressed as angels led the Red Lines climate protest on the Avenue de la Grande Armee, Paris. — Climate protesters blocked the Avenue de la Grande Armee and then marched to the Eiffel Tower, to highlight the need for a binding climate emissions agreement at the COP 21 meeting of nations in Paris. — Image by © Jo Syz/Demotix/Corbis
In a few prominent public places—including the Palais Royale, the Archives Nationales in Paris and the Paris Opera—highly talented and dedicated young musicians (also dressed as Angels) played music in between our readings of Australian children’s letters
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Women dressed as angels holds signs at the Place de la Repubique where hundreds of pairs of shoes were places earlier, on November 19, 2015, in Paris, on the eve of the official opening of the COP21 UN Conference on climate in the French capital. The shoes were placed as part a symbolic and peaceful rally called by the NGO Avaaz or Voice “Paris sets off for climate”. AFP PHOTO / MIGUEL MEDINA / AFP / MIGUEL MEDINA (Photo credit should read MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP/Getty Images)
12 Dec 2015, Paris, France — Guardian angels of the climate holds up a red line symbolizing panetary boundries in front of estimated 15,000 demonstrators who marsched from Avenue De La Grande Armée to the Eiffel Tower during the D12 demonstrations during the last day of COP21 in Paris, France, on Decembe 12th, 2015. (Photo by Andre Larsson/NurPhoto) — Image by © Andre Larsson/NurPhoto/Corbis
12 Dec 2015, Paris, France — Paris, France. 12th December 2015 — Climate campaigners dressed as angels led the protest against climate change on the Avenue de la Grande Armee, Paris. — Climate protesters blocked the Avenue de la Grande Armee and then marched to the Eiffel Tower, to highlight the need for a binding climate emissions agreement at the COP 21 meeting of nations in Paris. — Image by © Jo Syz/Demotix/Corbis
12 Dec 2015, Paris, France — Guardian angels of the climate holds up a red line symbolizing panetary boundries in front of estimated 15,000 demonstrators during the D12 demonstrations during the last day of COP21 on Avenue De La Grande Armée in Paris, France, on Decembe 12th, 2015. (Photo by Andre Larsson/NurPhoto) — Image by © Andre Larsson/NurPhoto/Corbis
With utmost respect and compassion for how Parisians were feeling following the brutal Friday 13 terrorist attacks in Paris, Climate Guardians defied the State of Emergency declaration that strictly limited civil society movements, including public protesting, during COP21, December 2015
12 Dec 2015, Paris, France — Paris, France. 12th December 2015 — Campaigners dressed as angels led the Red Lines climate protest in Paris. — Climate protesters blocked the Avenue de la Grande Armee and then marched to the Eiffel Tower, to highlight the need for a binding climate emissions agreement at the COP 21 meeting of nations in Paris. — Image by © Jo Syz/Demotix/Corbis
