Taking Climate Message to Gordon Brown

SCIAF has handed the Prime Minister over 5,000 campaign postcards signed by people from across Scotland who are calling for a strong climate change deal at the United Nations summit in Copenhagen.

Gordon Brown met SCIAF supporters from St Columba's High School in Dunfermline while on a visit to Dalgety Bay.

SCIAF’s Campaigns Officer Lexi Barnett handed over the Climate Justice postcards. She said:

“We welcomed the opportunity to pass on the climate change campaign postcards signed by over 5,000 SCIAF supporters from across Scotland to the Prime Minister. Gordon Brown should take this as a strong message from the Scottish people compelling him to go further to create climate justice.”

“We recognise that he is pushing hard for a strong international deal ahead of the United Nations (UN) climate change summit in Copenhagen in December. Progress, particularly in the EU and America is very slow and the Prime Minister must continue to do everything in his power to ensure a global deal which cuts greenhouse gas emissions and provides additional funding to help developing countries adapt to the climate challenges they face is delivered."

World leaders are set agree a new international climate deal at the UN Copenhagen Climate Change Summit that will come into force when the first phase of the Kyoto treaty expires in 2012. The current commitments from wealthy EU countries and the USA fall short of what is needed to avert a climate change catastrophe.

People from across Scotland are invited to join The Wave, Scotland’s largest ever march in support of climate change, which takes place in Glasgow on 5th December. For more information visit: www.the-wave.org.uk/scotland.