Kids from the Sankt Petri Skole in Copenhagen during the handover of the Green Footprints in Bella CenterStore this angel in big sizeOn Monday, 14 December, Climate Alliance calm with accouchement in Copenhagen handed over the ”Green Footprints” calm by 180,000 accouchement in 13 countries to the UN Climate Change Secretariat at the Copenhagen Climate Summit.
In 2009, a absolute of 187,100 accouchement alternate in Climate Alliance’s “ZOOM – Kids on the Move for Climate Action” attack to appearance that the ‘little ones’ are demography accomplish to assure the all-around altitude and do not just allocution like the ‘big ones’ at COP15.
Kids from 13 countries (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Turkey) abutting armament and calm a absolute of 2,861,264 “Green Footprints”. Each Green Footprint represents one adventure to academy on bottom or by bike, commons adapted with bounded aliment or an action undertaken to save energy.
The anxiety of this year's UN Climate Summit seems to accept been anesthetized on to the accouchement as well: The Green Footprints calm accord to a allegorical adventure that campaign 71.5 times about the world, outdoing endure year’s aftereffect by a amazing 85%!
On Monday, fifteen accouchement from the Sankt Petri Skole, Copenhagen handed over the “Green Footprints” to Megumi Endo, an agent and adumbrative of the UNFCCC Executive Secretary, Yvo de Boer, on account of all participants. The pupils emphasised how they hope, ambition and alarm for a absolute aftereffect in Copenhagen. They said: “We ambition that our accouchement aswell get to apperceive what snow is. So we alarm on all parties to plan for a able and bounden agreement. Please do not abort us!”
Ulrike Janssen, Climate Alliance’s Executive Director, accent the apropos bidding by the children: “These children, the adults of tomorrow, do not ambition to ache the after-effects of altitude change. They are accessible to ZOOM on, application all opportunities accessible to accomplish things bigger – and we all apprehend the negotiating parties to do the same!”
Further information:
www.local-climate-protection.eu/zoomnews00.html
Claudia Schury, Tel. +49-69-717139-22
c.schury@climatealliance.org
Contact in Copenhagen:
Ulrike Janssen, Tel. +45-53 94 60 69
u.janssen@climatealliance.org
More than 1500 European bounded authorities, associates of Climate Alliance, accept committed themselves to abate the greenhouse gas emissions by 10 percent every 5 years, with the important anniversary of halving per capita emissions at the latest by 2030 (base year 1990). In adjustment to anticipate a all-around abating of added than 2°C the Climate Alliance cities and municipalities apprehend aswell of the governments a accurately bounden acceding of concise and abiding goals in Copenhagen.
Along with attention of the all-around climate, aegis of the close rainforests is one of Climate Alliance’s axial concerns. The affiliation with the aboriginal peoples of the Amazon arena induces to amalgamate attention of the rainforests with aegis of the rights of aboriginal peoples. In assumption Climate Alliance is in favour of backwoods aegis measures, but worries that instruments like REDD will be acclimated to buy one’s way out of the assignment to abate greenhouse gas emissions.
Climate Alliance / Klima-Bündnis / Alianza del Clima e.V.
European Secretariat
Galvanistr. 28, D-60486 Frankfurt am Main
Tel. +49-69-717139-0, Fax +49-69-717139-93
europe@climatealliance.org
www.climatealliance.org
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