"No carnival fun"

Climate campaigners march through Innsbruck with “SUVs”

The climate campaigners marched through Innsbruck in "SUVs".(Bild: Moritz Holzinger, Krone KREATIV)

The Last Generation climate campaigners demonstrated rather unusually in Innsbruck on Tuesday. The activists made car frames out of wood. They attached SUV license plates to them. The demands they made are well-known.

The climate stickers started at around 7.30 am. With so-called "Gehzeugen", wooden frames the size of SUVs and other luxury vehicles, the participants slowly made their way from St. Paul's Church via Dreiheiligenstraße to the Landhaus. Finally, they stopped on Willhelm-Greil-Straße and briefly interrupted the traffic. What looked like fun at the height of the carnival was deadly serious.

At 7.30 a.m., the climate stickers started their march.(Bild: Moritz Holzinger)

"Listen to the climate council"
"This may look like carnival fun, but SUVs and other unnecessary luxury cars really do take up so much public space. Space that should actually belong to everyone," said spokesperson Marina Hagen-Canaval. The climate campaigners reiterated their call for the Austrian government to take the Climate Council's recommendations seriously.

The activists called for something familiar.(Bild: Moritz Holzinger)

The climate campaigners marched through Innsbruck in SUVs.(Bild: Moritz Holzinger, Krone KREATIV)

"It is essential that the government acts and implements the recommendations of its own citizens. If we fail to do so, we will not only slide further into climate catastrophe, but will also have to pay fines amounting to nine billion euros," said one of the activists.