Campaign against Climate Change

From Greenpeace national and international websites: “Taking global action against global warming” http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/global-warming-global-actio...

“In Montreal, 181 countries are meeting to determine what the world is going to do about global warming. A key issue at the summit is how other countries will deal with strong pressure from the US to ignore climate change. Our message to the delegates? Ignore the US administration. Take action.

“In Canada, the United States, Japan, Germany, France, Bangladesh, Brazil, Australia and South Africa, people took to the streets on Saturday to demand just that. 7,000 marched on Montreal alone. Five environmental groups including Greenpeace delivered a petition signed by 600,000 Americans to the US consulate in Montreal, calling upon President Bush and the US Congress to help slow global warming.”

In a similar vein, Al-Jazeera coverage of Montreal: “Elizabeth May, of the Sierra Club environmental group, said: "We will move the world ahead. We will not wait for George W Bush.””

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From Finnish press release: “700 people in four Finnish cities took part in actions for combating climate change. The protests demanded that “Finland must be pioneer in combating climate change” and “emissions must be cut down by 30 percent by 2020."

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Independent coverage of London messages: "Yesterday’s march in London was also directed at Tony Blair. Ten thousand demonstrators – who created a party atmosphere while carrying banners linking the President and the Prime Minister as “climate criminals” – took a special detour to hand in a letter at No 10 Downing Street...

Sunday Telegraph: "The demonstration had a party atmosphere as many of those taking part banged on drums, whistles and chanted anti-political slogans...some carried banners saying 'Bush, Blair, Beckett: climate criminals', while others waved banners which read 'Save Our World'."