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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Photos from around the globe of the International Day of Climate Action
Posted by Katie Machol on Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:32 AM
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Last Saturday (October 24) was the International Day of Climate Action - the biggest day of grassroots action on global warming ever. People from over 180 countries participated in different ways to show our world leaders that we want stricter rules on global carbon emissions when they meet in Copenhagen in December to reach an agreement on a new climate treaty.
There were over 5,200 events staged internationally and over 19,000 phots taken of the various events that day - from the US to India, Australia to Iceland. See photos submitted to Greenpeace, the Huffington Post, TreeHugger, and check out 350.org's page for photos and current updates of the movement.
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Locally, Greenpeace Tampa also participated in this event by holding a rally on Bayshore Blvd. About 40 people showed up to take a part and make their voices heard for the climate action cause.
Kate Melges, Greenpeace Lead Activist for the Bay area, organized the event and believes that politics threaten to undermine viable solutions to the climate crisis. She said we need a clean energy policy backed by science, not oil companies and lobbyists. Melges also thinks that it’s important for President Obama to take a leading role at the UN Climate Change Conference in December: “It is time for him to be a leader and stand up to the challenge of climate change.”
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