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The eco-clock is ticking…
21.09.2009, Oslo, Norway.
Author: Kevin Reeder (Wordz.no)
At precisely 12.18 Oslo time (UTC/GMT +2 hours), almost a hundred people froze in front of the Norwegian parliament to the sound of mobile phone alarms. Two minutes later they joined in a world chorus of “Tck, Tck, Tck” – the Global Climate Wake-up Call had begun.
As the activists in Oslo began a sustained wave of phone and email appeals to national politicians, thousands took part in a ‘human hourglass’ demonstration outside the United Nations building in New York. Simultaneously, in 2200 locations in 128 countries across the globe, thousands of people participated in similar stunts aimed at focusing media attention and pressurising world leaders to commit to a fair, ambitious and binding global climate deal at the Copenhagen climate summit in December.
The event in Oslo is part of a campaign that linked activists from Singapore to Sydney and Johannesburg to Buenos Aires. Local coordinator Guri Storaas, from SPIRE, a Norwegian based NGO, called the event “an unmistakable call to the Norwegian government to take a lead in Copenhagen”, and suggested that today’s global show of feeling should provide world leaders with a clear mandate to agree on a fair and binding post-Kyoto deal.
Climate action and justice
Although many of today’s events were initiated or coordinated by the global non-profit campaigning organization Avaaz, the groundswell of activism is part of a broad-based climate justice movement powered by a growing dissatisfaction with world leaders’ failure to act decisively in counteracting climate change.
The "time is running out" theme reflects the ‘Tcktcktck campaign’ being run collectively by a global alliance of civil society organizations, trade unions and faith groups, under the umbrella of the Global Campaign for Climate Action (GCCA). The Global Humantarian Forum calls its closely aligned campaign ‘Tck tck tck: Time for Climate Justice’. This was launched by Kofi Annan and Bob Geldof at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival in June. The Forum’s partners include key civil society organisations such as Oxfam, Greenpeace, WWF, Avaaz, the Global Campaign for Action Against Poverty, 350.org, the World Council of Churches and Christian Aid.
President of the Global Humantarian Forum, Kofi Annan has become a strong advocate of ‘climate justice’, which is driven by the principle that pollution has a price and the polluter must pay. This addresses a central issue that must be solved in Copenhagen: the fact that world’s poorest are carrying the heaviest burden for a problem they have done least to create.
If we don't act now…
As northern Europe heads toward night, the Global Climate Wake-up Call continues to roll around the globe. The events of today may not change everybody’s mind, but as Kofi Annan said in Cannes, they could create a sense of urgency and an understanding that if we don't act now it's going to be much costlier for all of us in the future.
The eco-clock is ticking – at this moment there are 76 days, 14 hours and 50 minutes until world leaders gather to replace the Kyoto protocol. Will they rise to the challenge and make the UN climate summit in Copenhagen a defining moment that determines the future of our planet?
Your efforts can make the difference.
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Links (Norway)
· Lobby Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg here.
· Lobby Minister of the Environment and International Development Erik Solheim on miljovernministeren@md.dep.no.
· See Oslo event on Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) website.
See Bob Geldof’s appeal to the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival on
www.klimavalg.no
Links (international)
· See map of Global Climate Wake-up Call events here.
· Join the ‘Tck tck tck: Time for Climate Justice’ campaign here.
· The Global Campaign for Climate Action’s TckTckTck project.
· Get involved via Avaaz here.
· See media coverage of Climate Wake-up Call events here.
· See the ‘human hourglass’ demonstration in New York here.