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Global Protest on Climate Change, Saturday 6th December
Citizens all around the world will be joining demonstrations to demand urgent action on climate change from world governments at the UN Climate Talks in Poznan, Poland (1st – 12th December). Please see below for international contacts
01/12/2008Last year during the Global Day of Action coinciding with the Bali Talks there were demonstrations and events in 70+ countries, with thousands or tens of thousands protesting in many countries, from Germany to Taiwan, Canada to Nepal and the Lebanon to the USA (see www.globalclimatecampaign.org )
Protesters will demand real progress towards a meaningful “post-Kyoto” international deal on climate. The last chance to achieve this is widely seen as being the Copenhagen Talks in December next year and this year’s Talks in Poznan will be vital to pave the way. A broad consensus of scientific opinion is suggesting we have less than ten years in which to halt and reverse the increase in global emissions of greenhouse gases. In that light many see the achievement of an effective ‘post-kyoto’ deal next year as our last chance to avoid a global catastrophe.
Phil Thornhill, from the Campaign against Climate Change in the UK, said, on behalf of the Global Climate Campaign “The current financial crisis does not absolve world leaders from their responsibility towards the literally billions of people, mainly from the world’s poorest communities, who are likely to perish if climate change remains unchecked. Frustration is boiling over at the years of failure to achieve meaningful international action on climate even as the evidence that we are on the brink of an unprecedented and irreversible catastrophe mounts. On Saturday December 6th people from all around the world will be saying that the time is now for world leaders to take decisive action to avert a global calamity”
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Contacts
- The Global Climate Campaign is a loose network of individuals, groups and organisations from all around the world which come together to organise international demonstrations on climate change, synchronised on a ‘Global Day of Action’, at the time of the annual UNFCCC Talks on climate change.
- The Fourteenth Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) or ‘COP 14’ will take place in Poznan, Poland 1st-12th December 2008. The critical ‘COP 15’ will take place in Copenhagen 30th November to 11th December 2009.
Global Climate Campaign www.globalclimatecampaign.org info@globalclimatecampaign.org
Tel +44 2078339311, Mob +44 7903316331
International ContactsThese can be found by checking the website www.globaclimatecampaign.org and then clicking the relevant country in the column on the left hand side. We have also listed some selected contacts below (mobile number and email):
Bangladesh
Dr Abdul Mohammed Matin
00 880 (0)1819 223343
memory14@agni.com
(event 6.00 am to 8.00 am Dec 6th, UK time)
India
Naveen Mishra
00 91 (0) 9910702114
fresh_navin@yahoo.com
Kenya
Michael Yego
00 254 (0) 725790995
michaelyego@yahoo.com
South Africa
France Maleme
00 27 720 3666
maleme2@gmail.com
China
Bai Yunwen
00 86 (0) 13910293350
bywhero@gmail.com
Bolivia
Edwin Alvarado Terrazas,
00 591 (0) 71711523 – 00 591 (0) 77555204
edwin@lidema.org.bo
Poznan, Poland
Diana Vogtel
0048 (0) 514169343
diana.vogtel@globalclimatecampaign.org
(in Poznan on behalf of the Global Climate Campaign)
Denmark
Thomas Meinert
00 45 (0)522717058
lu@klimabevaegelsen.dk
Canada
Dylan Penner
00 1 (0) 613-795-8685
climatechaos@actfortheearth.org
Jordan
Isabelle Manneh
00 962 0795526733
isabelle_manneh@hotmail.com
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