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Cop26: Sharma’s claim bankers are ‘new Swampys’ is appropriation, says activist
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Alok Sharma, the UK cabinet minister and president of the Cop26 summit, has been accused of appropriating the climate activism movement after he told conference delegates “you are the new Swampys”.
Opening the summit’s finance day, which aims to channel cash towards transitioning global economies to net zero carbon emissions, Sharma recalled climate protests of the 1990s.
He compared financiers and politicians with Dan Hooper, nicknamed Swampy, who became a household name in 1996 after his fierce
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