Extreme climate protesters made headlines in 2022. Here’s where they are now

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This has been the year of extreme climate protests.

Soup throwing, motorway blockading, bridge scaling, police station painting. 2022 has been filled with high-profile incidents that have divided public opinion and thrown the climate crisis into the spotlight.

But while the incidents themselves hit the headlines, the aftermath goes more under the radar. And the consequences for the people involved are stark.

We take a look back at some of the standout protests of 2022 and what happened afterwards.

Louis McKechnie has had a busy 2022.

In March he tied himself to the goalposts during a Premier League football match at Goodison Park in Liverpool.

In June, he and another Just Stop Oil supporter **glued themselves **to a Vincent van Gogh painting at the Courtauld Gallery in London’s Covent Garden. "Sorry everybody, we don't want to be doing this. We're here glued to this painting, this beautiful painting, because we're terrified for our future,” he said at the time.

In July, he was part of a track invasion at the Formula 1 British Grand Prix at Silverstone.

In November, he spent his 22nd birthday behind bars in HMP Peterborough.

McKechnie is a member of Just Stop Oil, a UK climate activist group pressuring the government to stop granting new oil and gas licences.

He has been imprisoned since July, when he was taken into custody for breaching his bail. Since then he has been found guilty of aggravated trespass for his pitch invasion at Goodison Park and sentenced to six weeks in prison, where he will stay until his trial in February for a public nuisance charge.

Two climate activists, Morgan Trowland and Marcus Decker, climbed a major bridge in the UK in October, forcing police to stop traffic. Like Louis, they are members of Just Stop