Wales Green Party Leader to attend Climate Conference vigil at Nye Bevan statue in Cardiff this evening
The Wales Green Party Leader, Jake Griffiths, is going to attend a Climate Change vigil at the Nye Bevan Memorial, Queens Street Cardiff this evening between 5pm and 6:30pm. With hours remaining before the end of the Copenhagen Climate Conference indications are that there will be no formal agreement.
Jake Griffiths, Wales Green Party Leader and Cardiff West election candidate, said: "It is critically important that the Copenhagen Conference finishes with agreement on actions and targets needed to cut green house gas emissions by 40% by 2020. This is the reduction scientists say is needed to avoid the most severe impacts of climate change. We must not forget that climate change is already having a devastating impact on many people's lives around the world."
He continued "The world's richer countries, such as Wales and the UK, need to show leadership in making the commitments to cuts in greenhouse gas emissions and provide the necessary finance and green technologies to poorer countries."
At the summit the Green Party is calling for:
* A much higher level of ambition. At the very least, the summit must provide clear foundations for a global deal: binding emissions reduction targets, uniform rules for measuring emissions, strong compliance mechanisms and common but differentiated responsibility - recognising different historical contributions to environmental
* Degradation, so that fairness is at the heart of any new deal.
* Reductions to be made domestically - not ‘outsourced' to poorer countries through complicated and confusing off-set schemes.
* World leaders to establish significant funding for climate mitigation and adaptation in developing countries who bear the cost in loss of life. This could prove to be a real sticking point, as the scale of financing needed for this purpose has so far been vastly underestimated.
* Governments to recognise that investing in the alternatives to polluting, finite fossil fuels, together with a shift to a more sustainable economic model, will actually benefit society and the economy as well as the environment - and therefore have the courage tobe more ambitious. Nationally this means implementing a Green New Deal with a programme of investment to insulate people's homes, get local renewable energy and public transport infrastructure projects up and running, that use local employment and benefit everyone. If you took away the need to reduce carbon emissions this investment would still improve life in communities across Britain.
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For further information contact Jake Griffiths on 07752754537 on cantongreens@hotmail.co.uk.
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