Poland

The official COP 14 websites are www.mos.gov.pl/cop14 and www.poznan.pl/cop14

Report from planning meeting of "Global Climate Campaign Poznan 2008" in Poznan - with updates:

GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION  POZNAN 6 DECEMBER 2008

At our planning meeting for Global Day of Action in Poznan we decided the following:

DEMONSTRATION

The main slogan for the demonstration will be CLIMATE NOW!

 The demonstration will start at 12.00 on Saturday 6 December from Plac Wolnosci (Freedom Square).  The proposed route of the demo will be from Plac Wolnosci along the streets 27 grudnia, Aleksandra Fredry, Franklina Roosevelta, to the Targi, where the talks are being held, around the Targi and then Towarowa, Franciszka Ratajczaka back to Plac Wolnosci.   (This route is being changed after negotiations with the authorities - more details soon).  Friends of the Earth Youth and some other youth organisations are planning a happening with some clowns etc. at the beginning of the demonstration and there will be a few other "special effects" aswell.

 We invite international guests to take part in the demo with your slogans, banners, flags and placards.

 We would ask people that plan special happenings etc. during the demonstration to tell us about it before 1 December, so that everything can be integrated.

BICYCLE RIDE                                                                                                   

Before the demonstration there will be a bicycle ride through the streets of Poznan. It will be possible to hire bikes and local people will bring their own. The ride will finish where and when the demonstration starts, so that the bikers can join the demonstration. The hired bikes will be collected so that people can continue on foot. Those who have their own bikes will be at the front of the demonstration.

CONCERT

On Saturday night there will be a concert

COMING TO THE DEMO

There will be coaches from Warsaw and Olsztyn and probably some groups going by train from other cities

MEETING – DISCUSSION PANEL

We are planning a joint meeting for Sunday 7 December from 12.00 with a panel of speakers. It will start at 12.00 and will take place in the "Zamek", which is a castle in the center of Poznan.  The title is "How do we win the battle about the climate?". There will be 4 or 5 speakers - Jonathan Neale who will speak in English and a few Polish speakers: dr Andreas Billert a specialist in city planning, Agnieszka Grzybek from the Green Party in Poland and the rest to be confirmed. We will have translators from/into English, so we invite people from outside Poland to come aswell!

 If any of your organizations want to hold a conference, seminar etc. at another time and don’t yet have a room, you can write to stepniew[at]amu.edu.pl and we will try to help you (but can’t promise anything). Please write before 20 October and tell us for how many people the room should be.

MEDIA ACCREDITATION

If you need accreditation to cover the climate conference for the media you should write to stepniew[at]amu.edu.pl – as soon as possible.

ACCOMODATION

Poznan City has promised 400 accomodation places in the gyms of two schools from Friday 5 December to Sunday 7 December. The cost will be 15 PLN (around 4 euro) per night per person.

You will have to bring a sleeping bag and a carrymat/mattress.

 We will take advance reservations. If it turns out that 400 places is too little, we will try to get more.

Please send your reservation (preferably as a group or if necessary individually) to: stepniew[at}amu.edu.pl

and please write RESERVATION in the title of the mail. We would like to have the reservations before 1 November, so that we have an idea if we will need more places.

If anybody wants accomodation in schools they should write to: stepniew[at]amu.edu.pl

FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT, WEBSITE

There will be created a new website with information about the demonstration, how to get to and around in Poznan and other useful information. The address will be www.poznan2008.org but you have to wait a little while before it will be up.

For questions other than accommodation you can write to international[at]poznan2008.org and we will answer you in English.

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Actions of Polish Climate Coalition during COP14 in Poznan.

Organisations involved in the Global Day of Action protest include :

Polish Ecological Club  ( Polski Klub Ekologiczny)    http://www.pke-zg.org.pl/

Greenpeace Poland    http://www.greenpeace.org/poland/

Polish Green Party ( Zieloni 2004)  - contacts :
Dariusz Szwed   www.szwed.zieloni2004.pl    dariusz.szwed[at]zieloni2004.pl
Magda Mosiewicz   magda.mosiewicz[at]zieloni2004.pl

Fundacja Nasza Ziemia       http://www.naszaziemia.pl/v3/

Stowarzyszenie „Lepszy �wiat”      http://lepszyswiat.home.pl/

Pracownicza Demokracja  (Workers Democracy )   http://pracdem0.republika.pl/

Fundacja im Heinricha Bolla         http://www.boell.pl/

On 8th December 2007, Greenpeace stuck 8000 stickers in public places in 18 cities. Stickers included: "emergency exit - will be flooded", "Stop climate change" and "You cant escape from the Earth. Stop climate change."

There were events in Lodz, Warsaw, Katowice and Krakow and leafleating in Szczecin and Wroclaw.  About 120 volunteers were involved in the stickering and events. Media coverage was quite good and in Krakow/Lodz/Katowice this included radio stations, two TV stations and local media.

In Szczecin there was a separate radio program about climate change with one of the volunteers as a participant.

See more photos here

There was a Climate Change action in Poland on October 26th, 2006. It was a common German-Polish action on the border bridge. See (if you read german), here   On November 6th Greenpeace Poland did a climate change show in a cinema.
 

This picture from a small climate demonstration as part of the Global Day of Action on December 3rd 2005.