ONE YEAR ON: CLIMATE DURHAM REACHES OUT
November 3, 2009 12:00 AM
Celebrating their first anniversary, local climate change group Climate Durham is calling on families, businesses and organisations in Durham to send a clear message about a low carbon future to negotiators at the climate summit in Copenhagen this December.
The group is issuing a public invitation to an open meeting in Durham Town Hall on Friday 13 November to contribute to a vision statement on a lower carbon future.
Janie Bickersteth, chair of Climate Durham, said:
"After working locally for a year we want to reach out to a wider audience. We have shown that local communities can make a difference by working together on climate issues.
"Our message to climate change negotiators will be that a world-wide agreement will enable and encourage local action to follow.
"We will be asking local secondary school students to deliver this message directly to Copenhagen via a video-link to show that the future can be full of opportunities if they get it right."
North East Euro-MP Fiona Hall, who will be presenting a European perspective on the climate negotiations at the event, said:
"The Copenhagen climate summit in December is a great opportunity to set out a positive vision of what a low carbon economy would be like locally.
"Public pressure is an important ingredient at the negotiations and I am delighted that Climate Durham is calling on Copenhagen to acknowledge the importance of local community action. I will be at the Copenhagen summit encouraging an ambitious and wide-ranging deal."
The event on November 13th will take place from 12.30-2pm in Durham Town Hall. Please email Janie@climatedurham.org if you would like to come.
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