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512,894 signatures for a fair climate deal
That's how many petitions Countdown to CO2penhagen collected, and that's what Archbishop Desmond Tutu handed over to Yvo de Boer this afternoon at Copenhagen Town Hall Square.
Knock, knock: 100.000 people at your door!
100.000 people joined the big climate demonstration in Copenhagen today.
The demonstration is at Bella Center right now, trying to get the worlds leaders to open up and listen to the demands for a fair, ambitious and legally binding climate deal.
Carry the burden
Indian DCA partners got peoples attention at the climate summit in Bella Center, when they presented the rich countries with an overdue invoice with the amount of 150 billion dollars – a year.
“Today, the poor countries are hit hardest by the climate changes, even though we haven’t polluted half as much as the rich countries. This has to end,” Says Malla Reddy, leader og Accion Fraterna Ecology Centre in Anantapur, India.
One of Countdown to Copenhagens core messages are, that the financial responsibility of solving the climate crisis rests on the shoulders of the polluters; the rich, developed countries.
For the sake of our children
“We owe it to our children to make an effort here, so they don’t inherit a wasted planet,” says John Devaram from SPEECH – Society for peoples education and economic change, India.
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