CLIMATE activists held a funeral for the broken promises of the Paris Agreement over the weekend after global average temperatures smashed through the 1.5°C target.

A solemn procession around Cambridge city centre on Saturday was attended by activists from Extinction Rebellion (XR), Greenpeace, Stop the War and the Organisation of Radical Cambridge Activists. 

They carried a black funeral casket and a banner reading: “No future on a dead planet.”

XR Cambridge spokeswoman Zoe Flint said: “Politicians have broken their promises to keep global temperature rises to a liveable 1.5°C. 

“For decades, people around the world have been resisting environmental devastation in their own communities and beyond — often facing state repression and violence as a result. 

“With dozens of political protesters now in prison in this country, that repression has come to the UK too. 

“But when those least responsible for climate breakdown suffer the worst effects, we can’t afford to give up the fight.”

Ms Flint said politicians have “endangered us all” and warned that “every fraction of a degree of warming we can prevent will save lives.”