(1 Apr 2009) SHOTLIST
1. Police cordon around environmental protest
2. Protesters setting up tents
3. Chalk drawing on pavement reading (English) "Carbon Trading - Trading Our Planet for Profit"
4. Various of protesters setting up climate camp
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Vox Pop, City Worker (no name given):
"People are speaking their voice, and yeah... let it be known. They seem to be having quite a good time as well, which is good for them. Nice day for it as well, nice day to go rioting."
6. Various of police arresting protester, onlookers shouting
7. Police cars driving past
8. Various of police outside European Climate Exchange
9. Wide of climate change protesters near G20 summit venue with ice block
10. Tilt up of ice block, with placards reading 'Climate Meltdown'
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Phil Thornhill, National Coordinator for the Campaign Against Climate Change:
"Basically the G20 has got the wrong priority. The real priority should be the threat from the catastrophic destabilisation of the global climate because, serious as the recession is, far more livelihoods and lives are threatened by the massive impact that a destabilised climate would have."
12. Wide of protesters with ice block
13. Wide of police barricade with summit venue in background
14. Exterior of summit venue with "Excel" centre sign
15. Wide of police
16. Close of police
17. Various of barricades being unloaded from truck
18. Police boat on river
STORYLINE
Hundreds of protesters set up camp in the heart of London's financial district on Wednesday to protest global climate change.
Environmentalists pitched tents, set up farmers' market stalls, bunting and banners outside the European Climate Exchange building.
The protesters are opposed to carbon markets which they say are not an answer to climate change.
Campaigners of all stripes have seized on the G20 summit as a chance to bring their grievances directly to the globe's top politicians, and the world's assembled media.
Police said they were dealing with an unprecedented security challenge from the presence of a score of world leaders alongside thousands of anti-capitalist, environmental and other demonstrators protesting the impact of the economic meltdown.
Also on Wednesday, one environmental group dumped a giant block of ice near the London venue for the upcoming summit.
The Campaign Against Climate Change (CACC) group said they used the ice sculpture to highlight the melting of Arctic sea ice.
Phil Thornhill, a national coordinator for CAAC, said the G20 was wrong in focusing on the recession.
The "catastrophic destabilisation of the global climate" was more likely to destroy lives and livelihoods, he said.
Meanwhile, police continued to step up security around the Excel centre ahead of Thursday's meetings.
At one point officers carried out a security exercise which saw roads around the centre close for a short time.
Police boats patrolled the river Thames which lies adjacent to the summit venue.
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