Get out your walking shoes, slip, slop, slap & wrap - then march to show that you are concerned about positive outcomes for the planet at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenahgen.
March meeting points on Saturday 12 December 2009:
March meeting points on Saturday 12 December 2009:
DARWIN 5pm, Nightcliff Jetty
Can't walk on that day? Sign the petition being sent to Kevin Rudd at Walk Against Warming website.
This is The Greens Senator Christine MiIlne writing from Copenhagen:
I'm writing to you from freezing Copenhagen, where so many world leaders and negotiators are still frozen in the past, working towards a deal that simply won't cut it, according to the latest science.But you can help change that.
Everywhere I go across Copenhagen, there are reminders that the time for real action is now. Artworks, displays and protests all show that the people of the world won't settle for distractions and false solutions.
But inside the conference centre it's a different story.
The thousands of delegates queuing for security, cloak rooms and meals are frozen in negotiations which are deadlocked by the two deal breakers – how much and how fast to cut emissions, and how much rich nations should help finance poor nations to deal with the climate crisis.
There is a palpable tension across the whole city. Everyone here knows that, despite the fine words, the emissions targets and financing figures currently on the table are utterly inadequate.
There is one easy thing you can do to help drag our leaders into the real world.
If millions of people around the world join walks to demand real action, it will send a wake up call to Kevin Rudd and all the other leaders heading to Copenhagen in the next few days.
It will show them that the community is ready to do what it takes and won't be swayed by excuses.
I'll be walking with tens of thousands of others here in Copenhagen, but there is a Walk Against Warming in every Australian capital city and some regional centres.
Yours in hope,
Christine Milne
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