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six weeks from Copenhagen, ...




by recyclinage » 25/10/09, 11:00

The Copenhagen conference is advancing rapidly. Six weeks before this UN summit supposed to lead to an agreement fighting against global warming, environmental associations are trying to mobilize public opinion. This Saturday, hundreds of actions took place around the world. Today is "Day of the night". As the country goes into winter time, 177 cities plan to turn off their lights after dark: by this action, elected officials intend symbolically to express their wish to reduce the harmful effects on the environment linked to their electricity consumption.

But this Saturday is also World Climate Action Day, a meeting driven by the ecological association "350". 350, as the number which constitutes, according to the organization, the maximum concentration of particles per million (ppm) of carbon dioxide that the terrestrial air can contain without risk of warming. However, warns the organization, the rate is currently 390 ppm. First action to mark the spirits, that of the Greenpeace activists who deployed a banner struck with the logo of the association on the wreck of the Rainbow Warrior, a former Greenpeace boat which had been sunk in 1985 by the French State.

In total, the organizers have planned more than 4000 actions in nearly 180 countries. Their call has been echoed in areas rarely cited in the fight against global warming, such as Ukraine or Kazakhstan. In Paris, around two hundred people gathered on Place de la Bourse, responding to a call from the Climate Ultimatum, a movement created as part of the Copenhagen conference and which brings together the main environmental protection associations.

Cell phone rings and full alarm clocks, they wanted to "wake up Nicolas Sarkozy" and the planet. A flashmob conducted at 12:18 p.m., in reference to the date of December 18, the last day of the conference when an agreement should be signed.


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