"Here in Paris, as in each COP until now, we see the role of the US, trying to stop the efforts to reduce compulsory real emissions, and the acceptance of the true historical responsibility as a leading emitter of greenhouse effect gases", protesters declared in a letter to President Barack Obama.
United States leads a pollution trading strategy that allows large as oil companies to continue to affect communities and also threatens the means of survival of indigenous communities in the North and the Global South, said the members of the delegation It Takes Roots.
"The prosperity of societies of fossil fuels has been built on the backs of historically marginalized communities: indigenous people, miners, fishermen, working class communities around the world, who pay the price of cheap fuels and disproportionately suffer the consequences the global climate chaos", said Dallas Goldtooth, of the Indigenous Environmental Network.
Members of the campaign, Indians, blacks, Latin Americans and organizations from the Pacific Islands and Asia represent the communities living near fracking wells, coal power plants and oil refineries, facing the worst impacts of climate.
More than 350 people participated in an event on Thursday in front of the Wall of Peace in Paris, the place chosen to symbolically challenge the consequences of that action.
Flags, chants and street theater, among other initiatives, marked the action by the Human Rights Day of the delegation It Takes Roots.
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