• Posted by: Serge
  • Date: Mon 27 Jul 2009



 

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The Big Ask Again: make your voice heard by appearing in Nic Balthazar's new video clip.

link:The Big Ask Again

On Saturday 29 August 2009, come and join us at 14:00 on Ostend beach (Klein Strand, Oostende) to make the “Big Ask again” video clip. This is the follow up to last year's "The Big Ask" by Nic Balthazar (photo), award-winning film-maker and climate activist.

The film of us dancing to furious rhythms will be seen across the globe. We will be calling on the world’s decision-makers to take action to save the world’s climate. Our appeal is supported by Alain Hubert, renowned climate campaigner, president of the International Polar Foundation and director of the Princess Elisabeth polar station project, as well as by Sabine Hagedoren, Jill Peeters, Tom Kestens, Steven Vroman and our very own Serge de Gheldere.

Don’t miss this exciting opportunity! Futureproofed will be there ! and so will thousands of funky, sexy, forwardly-mobile, shakin', solar-diggin', suv-dissin', shiny, energized, bright green people.
And the obligatory handfull of celebrities, of course. Be there, or be desperately behind the curve.

Join us to make your voice heard and help our representatives do the right thing at Copenhagen !

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On 29 August 2009, there will be about 100 days to go to the United Nations summit in Copenhagen. The follow-up to Kyoto, Copenhagen is, literally, of vital importance. On 29 August we will show that tackling global warming is a priority for most of the world’s population. Solutions are available, and it is up to the decision-makers to implement them. The event on 29 August 2009 in Belgium marks the start of an international campaign to tackle climate change. The Climate Coalition calls on Belgian and European decision-makers to make the upcoming United Nations climate summit a success.

We believe that the success of the negotiations can be measured by the extent to which the following objectives are attained:

  • A binding international agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
  • Targets based on the most recent scientific report from the IPCC.
  • Action to limit average global warming to a level well below 2°C (compared with the beginning of the industrial era).
  • Transfer of substantial resources to developing countries, given the historic responsibility of the industrialised countries for causing global warming. These resources must take account of the specific situation of each country and the action which it can take to reduce its carbon emissions (for example, the fight against deforestation in a country like Brazil). The transfer of resources must also be proportional to the scale of the consequences of climate change on developing countries. And, finally, such resources must obviously be additional to official development assistance (and not replacing it).
  • A fair and socially just agreement.
  • Urgent implementation of the agreement.
  • Action to be taken above all in the industrialised countries themselves, in accordance with a sustainable development model.