[IMC-UK-Features] IMC-UK-Features Digest, Vol 68, Issue 1

[Cass, Noel]

Some typos corrected:
--------------------------------------
The UN Climate Conference of Parties number 15 is set to take place in
Copenhagen on the 30th of November 2009. The summit will be the biggest
climate summit ever to have taken place. More than 12.000 delegates
businessleaders, politicians, diplomats and lobbyists are going to be
discussing an international treaty to replace the failed Kyoto
Protocol. Set to end in 2012 this treaty was supposed to reduce 
anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions by 6%. However according to UN itself the global
carbon emmisions have so far risen by 4% instead. There is no indication
that the COP15 summit will come up with anything real to fight climate
change.

However tens of thousands activists and protesters will be making their
way to Copenhagen for this major event. In September people from more
than 23 countries met in Copenhagen and agreed on a Call to Action, calling for people to start mobilizing and to carry out actions locally as
well as coming to Copenhagen for mass actions. Planning for this event
has already begun.

Another international planning meeting [del] will take place in march where
the action concepts will be worked out. A climate camp will take place
on the 11-19th of July. Also a mass action will shut down a Danish
powerplant[del] in the months before the summit. The world leaders may
converge upon Copenhagen but they won't leave until they have felt the power
of the people who will be hurt by climate change

Additional bonus stuff
Related story:
Activists rock[del] the conference center:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/12/414098.html

Related site (how to get involved):
The mobilization website can be found here:
http://climateaction09.org/
-------------------------------------------


------------------------------


--
Indymedia United Kollektives editorial
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-uk-features

End of IMC-UK-Features Digest, Vol 68, Issue 1
**********************************************

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/ms-tnef
Size: 5056 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-uk-features/attachments/20081204/4e1438f7/attachment.bin