A CLIMATE protester scaled the dome of St Paul’s Cathedral in London today to send out a message demanding action to cancel poor countries’ debts and tackle climate change.

Rob Callender hitched a banner to the dome reading: “Jubilee for Climate.”

He already faces a potential six-month prison sentence for carrying out a similar action with two others at the Houses of Parliament last year.

The Jubilee for Climate Movement takes its name from the Jubilee 2000 campaign, which marked the turn of the millennium by pushing for the debts of the world’s poorest countries and other “unfair” debts to be wiped out.

Today, the group publicly repeated its demands and warned that the climate emergency and other world crises cannot be tackled unless the root problem, the way capitalism runs society, is solved.

Mr Callender, an experienced climber and campaigner, said: “The City of London is a den of thieves.

“Nearly 40 per cent of global illicit financial flows go through the City. The largest asset managers are here.

“When a poor country can’t pay their debt, they’re sued here.

“Fossil fuel companies suing countries for lost profits happens here.

“The UK really can lead the fight against climate change, but it’s all blah-blah-blah until we remake the financial system, stop punishing the countries that colonialism made poor and let the people have their voice. We need a jubilee for climate.”

Today’s action took place on the 10th anniversary of the Occupy London movement, beginning protests around St Paul’s, targeting the London Stock Exchange on nearby Paternoster Square.

Extinction Rebellion also demontrated in the City of London in its recent two-week-long rebellion, which finished in September.

The latest protest came two weeks before the Cop26 climate change summit opens in Glasgow.

Jubilee for Climate campaigner Daisy Pearson argued that global warming is caused by “the mindset of greed and domination” of colonialism.

“This extractive relationship continues today, through oppression and discrimination, through debt and impossibly high interest rates, and it continues to fuel the climate crisis,” she said.