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This is the moment a climate change protester tried to superglue himself to the doors of City Hall - but was stumped because they kept opening before he could get there.

University research fellow Dr Larch Maxey tried several times to approach the automatic doors of the headquarters of Bristol City Council, after covering his hands with superglue, but gave up when he couldn’t get to the doors fast enough before they opened.

He and fellow climate change activists abandoned their direct action protest, and instead unfurled a banner and read a speech which called for all those standing as candidates in the upcoming European elections to declare a climate emergency.

The action was undertaken by a group of people who are standing in those European Parliamentary Elections later this month, under the banner Climate and Ecological Independent candidates.

(Image: Bristol Live)

Dr Maxey is one of those three ‘CEE Independent’ candidates, who said the council should be applauded for being the first in the country to declare a climate emergency.

The University of Plymouth researcher took part in a number of the direct action protests which have taken place across Bristol over the past year or so.

In December, he was one of a large group who blockaded the BBC Bristol headquarters in Whiteladies Road, and spoke to Bristol Live about why that action was necessary.

Another of the candidates, Mohir Rahman read a list of demands, which was supposed to take place as the activists were glued to the doors.

“Words are not enough, declaring a climate emergency is a great first step and we urge all MEP candidates to declare the Emergency, but we also call on them to commit to going zero carbon throughout Europe by 2030 and to appoint Citizen’s Assemblies of ordinary people to decide the policies needed for this urgent transformation of our society,” he said.

“Bristol City Council should be applauded for being the first Council to declare a Climate Emergency in November last year.

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“But we need actions as much as words and not enough is being done at a fast enough pace.

“I’m also standing here because we need different kinds of voices in our politics. I want to highlight the risks of ‘Green Neo-Colonialism’ if the rush towards renewables is carried out with what Michael Gove last week described as the current ‘extractive economy’,” he added.

(Image: Bristol Live)

He said the Climate and Ecological Emergency Independent candidates have three manifesto aims in the EU elections: