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G8 climate alarm sounded in Oxford
The campaigners rang bells to send a wake-up call about climate change to the G8 leaders. They were sounding the climate alarm to remind the G8 leaders meeting in Gleneagles that time is running out to tackle climate change. The alarm highlights the urgent need for strategies to address climate change, which tackle the unequal impacts of climate change on the planet’s poorest people. The alarm took place at 13:45 because G8 counties represent just 13% of the world’s population and yet they emit over 45% of global climate change emissions. Similar actions also took place across the world. Karl Wallendszus, a campaigner with Oxford Friends of the Earth said: "We are sounding this climate alarm as a wake-up call to the G8 leaders. It highlights the urgent need for meaningful rapid action to cut climate change emissions. It aims to alert G8 leaders to the fact that it is their moral responsibility to act now. It is they who can afford to take immediate action and it is they who must take the lead in ending poverty and injustice, and in halting climate change." Members of Cyclox, the cycling campaign for Oxford, will also took part by ringing their bicycle bells. James Styring of Cyclox said: "It
is fantastic that people in Oxford are joining
groups across the world to challenge world leaders on the injustice of
climate
change. The G8 leaders meeting in Gleneagles should take this global
alarm as a
loud clear message that they need to take action now". The alarm was followed by a minute's silence for the victims
of the London bombings which occurred earlier in the day. The action was covered in the local media, including Fox FM,
Passion FM and the Oxford Times. |
Oxford Friends of
the Earth gathered at Carfax, Oxford at
13:45 on Thursday 7 July 2005 to demand that the G8 deliver climate
justice as
part of an unprecedented world-wide "climate alarm".