World gets a climate wake-up call
CLIMATE campaigners demonstrated worldwide yesterday to give global leaders a warning.
The protesters were taking part in what was labelled the "Global Climate Wake-Up Call".
More than 2,000 events took place across the world, organised by the online campaign network Avaaz.org, part of the TckTckTck movement formed to call for a new international climate agreement that is fair, ambitious and binding. In London, campaigners filled Parliament Square and held up their mobile phones to ring in unison.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown took one of the calls and confirmed he would go to the Copenhagen climate change conference in December.
There were more than 280 events in the UK. Paul Hilder, from Avaaz, said the initiative had just "snowballed" after being thought up a few weeks ago.
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