Flood for Climate Justice fra Øksnehallen, Halmtorvet den 12. december kl. 10
Friends of the Earth International is organising a Flood for Climate Justice in Copenhagen on 12th December 2009 in cooperation with NOAH Friends of the Earth Denmark.
The action will take place in the middle weekend of the UNFCCC climate conference.
It will be a clear demand for climate justice - calling on world leaders to find fair solutions to the climate crisis.
…a Flood is coming
The event will start at Klimaforum09 – the peoples climate summit - at 10 am with a colourful procession moving as a human flood.
The Flood will end with a flooding of 'The Global Offsetting Center" in Christiansborg Slotsplads – home of the Danish Parliament and the historical stock exchange.
Around 3000 people will participate in making The Copenhagen Flood a spectacular demand for climate justice.
What we're calling for
We will use the action to help build a climate justice movement in support of our demands.
This will support other events in Copenhagen such as the Klimaforum09.
Friends of the Earth is calling on world leaders to agree a just and sufficient agreement in Copenhagen.
Message to decision makers
From December 7-18, 2009, the 15th UN climate conference (COP15) will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark. Here, governments from around the world will meet to discuss efforts to tackle global warming.
Friends of the Earth International will also be there. We’re inviting people to come to Copenhagen to help build pressure on governments to find fair solutions to the climate crisis. We believe that rich industrialized countries, which have historically emitted the most greenhouse gases, must agree to urgent and dramatic cuts in their emissions starting NOW.
This is absolutely fundamental if we are to prevent the most devastating effects of global warming on the world – in particular on the world’s most impoverished and vulnerable people. Our message to the negotiators is that the historical climate debt must be repaid to the Global South. The Climate Capsule will bring stories from around the world of people affected by climate change.
Lobbyists from the World Bank and industry will also attend the talks. We need to make sure that any agreement that might be reached does not end up promoting the interests of big business, while robbing people of their land and their rights to survival.
No to false and unjust solutions
An agreement that allows rich countries to continue polluting by funding unsustainable offset projects in the Global South, and which relies on false solutions such as mega dams, nuclear power, carbon capture and storage and monoculture tree plantations, must be rejected. The World Bank must not be allowed to control climate finance. Forests must not become commodities to be traded as part of global carbon markets.
Why we are here
People can influence our governments and hold them accountable. That is why Friends of the Earth International is organizing the ‘Flood for Climate Justice’ in Copenhagen on Saturday December 12, 2009. In the middle of the two weeks of negotiations, we will ‘flood’ through the streets of Copenhagen with our demands for climate justice.
Join us!
We are encouraging as many people as possible to come to Copenhagen; using the most environmentally friendly transport they can, to be part of a movement for climate justice. The event will be the high point in a year of cyber-actions, street actions and campaigning from Friends of the Earth groups around the world.
We invite everyone who shares our vision to join the exciting spectacle on December 12, when we will use our bodies and our voices to create a message that decision-makers and lobbyists cannot ignore:
The Flood Is Coming!
