Global Day of Action

      International Demonstrations on Climate Change

On 6th December 2008, the Saturday midway through the UNFCCC
Climate Talks (COP 14/MOP 4), in Poznan, Poland

                              For last year's Global Day of Action on Climate see here

This webpage has been set up to publicise and promote plans for demonstrations on climate change, to coincide with the United Nations Climate Talks (COP14/MOP4) in Poznan, Poland, December 1st to 12th 2008.

We intend synchronised demonstrations around the world on Saturday December 6th 2008 - in as many places as possible - to call on world leaders to take urgent action on climate change.

The 'Call to Action' for these demonstrations and related events that will take place on December 6th 2008 is as follows:

“We demand that world leaders take the urgent and resolute action that is needed to prevent the catastrophic destabilisation of global climate, so that the entire world can move as rapidly as possible to a stronger emissions reductions treaty which is both equitable and effective in minimising dangerous climate change.

We demand that the long-industrialised countries that have emitted most greenhouse gases currently in the atmosphere take responsibility for climate change mitigation by immediately reducing their own emissions as well as investing in a clean energy revolution in the developing world. Developed countries must take their fair share of the responsibility to pay for the adaptive measures that have to be taken, especially by low-emitting countries with limited economic resources.

Climate change will hit the poorest first and hardest. All who have the economic means to act, must therefore urgently and decisively do so.”

We feel that there is an overwhelming need to create a groundswell of global opinion to push for the urgent and radical action on climate change, without which we risk a global catastrophe of unimaginable proportions.

To help build for these demonstrations please find the contact for your country, below, or if there is not yet one listed there contact us at

 info@globalclimatecampaign.org

             Demonstrating for action on climate, Istanbul, Turkey December 8th 2007