Environmental activists are staging a demonstration in Watford to demand action on climate change.
Watford and Three Rivers Friends of the Earth will be demonstrating in the town centre on Sunday, November 29, to coincide with the United Nations Climate Change Conference being held in Paris.
The demonstrators will meet at the Band Stand near the Town Hall at 12pm and march down High Street, turning around at the entrance to intu Watford towards the end of the high street and marching back up to the Band Stand.
There will also be a stall outside Reason Café where people can find more information about the organisations involved, climate change and the UN conference.
Gwen Buck from Watford and Three Rivers Friends of the Earth said: "We’re already feeling the effects of climate change, and on November 29 Watford will be part of a global movement demanding the United Nations climate talks make substantial movements towards talking climate change."
Other organisations supporting the event include, Watford Young Greens, Watford Green Party, Divest Herts, Farm Terrace Association, Watford Link4Growth, Watford Cycle Hub, Watford Labour, Watford Oxfam, Watford Humanists, Watford Transition Town, Abbots Langley Transition Town Association, Global Justice Now and Jubilee Debt Campaign.
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