Are French protesters more effective? Meet the ‘next level’ climate activists – video

Damien Gayle, the Guardian's environment correspondent, visits Extinction Rebellion’s the Big One protest in London to find out if the group's new non-disruptive tactics will work in recruiting supporters. He then heads to the south of France, where climate protest group Les Soulèvement de la Terre is staging a demonstration against a new motorway project, to find out why French people are simply better at protesting than the English