The long battle for the climate

by Alessio Sciurpa

The long way of approaching to COP15, which opens today in Copenhagen, has seen world leaders pressed and ridiculed by so many initiatives, so that carbon dioxide emissions are reduced by 12% by 2012 and 50% by 2050 and not to lose the work done from the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992, up to the Kyoto Protocol.
And it is the Danish town that will host the summit, to be the latter scenario campaign: incoming travelers at the Copenhagen airport will be greeted by billboards with fake aged photo montages of the faces of the leader of the world, apologize for not been able to stop climate change. Although there are those who believe the summit had failed at the outset (see the recent report by John Vidal “The Guardian” - and the statements after the APEC summit in Singapore on November 15), certainly the COP15 has obtained an effect: awareness and mobilize through environmental communication campaigns and initiatives, promoted by associations, groups or individuals, the largest mass of people in history around the theme of climate change. Over again through some of the most significant campaigns approaching the COP15.

Youtube channel "Raise Your Voice": a real virtual discussion space where you can find numerous and authoritative "Call for Action".

Canadian mothers with the beautiful video "Demostration" for the campaign "moms against climate change", which uploaded over 1500 photos of their children.

The "Blog Action Day 2009", which we joined together with over 8,000 bloggers coming from 143 different countries, and we have told in this post.

Or the Greenpeace "DirtyKev”, where Kevin Rudd turns into a dirty word.

And is always Greenpeace with this ambient that let the ancinet statues of Rome talks.

"TCK TCK TCK", campaign we mentioned in our previous post, through music with the song "Beds are Burning".

We conclude the roundup with the "hope" that Copenhagen, along with over 400 thousand who signed the petition and leave a thought (myself included) can really turn into Hopenhagen.