Protesters call for end to fossil fuels in NYC

Activists urge Biden to act on climate change and fulfill emissions targets

Thousands of protesters from around the world descended on Lower Manhattan this week to noisily demonstrate against climate change, as world leaders met at the United Nations on Wednesday for a one-day climate ambition summit.

The protesters, holding up brightly colored placards, with the words: "Stop Global Warming!" and "Fuels Kill", marched and chanted through the streets of New York calling for an end to the use of fossil fuels.

Alice Hu of New York Communities for Change, a nonprofit organization that tries to stir political change, told CBS News: "Fossil fuels are the number one cause of the climate crisis. With the climate crisis, (there is) more extreme weather, climate disasters, food shortages, droughts, climate migration, climate chaos all over the world."