Region joins human wave for action on climate change

Dec 4 2009 by Tony Henderson, The Journal

HUNDREDS of people in the North East are gearing up to back next week’s international bid to intensify the fight against climate change.

Many will travel to London on Saturday to take part in a massive human wave to call for action on climate change ahead of the UN climate summit in Copenhagen.

The Make Poverty History organisation and the RSPB in the North East are calling on people of the region to swell the London event. The Wave is being organised by Stop Climate Chaos – a coalition of over 100 organisations. Peter Robertson, the RSPB’s conservation manager in Northern England said: “The RSPB believes climate change to be the greatest long-term threat to wildlife.

“As a conservation charity, we are proud to be one of the founding organisations of the Stop Climate Chaos Coalition and to be making a stand at The Wave.

“It will surge through the streets of central London towards Westminster and we are asking as many people as possible to attend, wearing, waving or wiggling something blue as a show of unity.

“Time is running out if we want to avoid future temperature rises that will threaten the lives of hundreds of thousands of the world’s poorest people, devastate wildlife and leave us with a crippling environmental legacy to hand on to our children.”

Dr David Golding, development coordinator of Make Poverty History North East who lives in Whitley Bay, said: “I’m one of hundreds of people from the North East who’ll be going to The Wave in London to join the UK’s biggest ever demonstration on climate change at a crucial time, as world leaders will be about to meet in Copenhagen to agree a global climate change deal.”