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There is only one week left for negotiators to set the stage for leaders to reach a strong global climate treaty at the summit in December.
To mark the opening of the meeting, 23 Greenpeace activists took action at the famous Sagrada Familia, demanding world leaders make the call and push the negotiators to act in Barcelona.
Video: Watch them scale the Sagrada Familia
While our climbers worked to deploy a 600 square metre banner at the Sagrada Familia, others joined our partners from TckTckTck to give negotiators a wake up call as they entered the conference centre for beginning of the talks. Hundreds of alarm clocks rang out simultaneously sounding the climate alarm for the negotiators (who seem to have fallen asleep at the wheel) to wake up, put their feet back on the accelerator and help get these negotiations back on track.
Video: Tck Tck Tck set the clocks at Barcelona
How the negotiations are going
So far in the negotiations, Australian has been pushing for a range of loopholes that would allow us to just pay other countries to make emissions reductions so we can keep on polluting at home. Some of these rules are being discussed in Barcelona, and the Greenpeace team on the ground are pushing for a limit on the amounts of land use and forestry “offsets” that countries can use.
It is crucial that emissions reductions that countries sign up to are worth more than the paper they are written on and result in real reductions in greenhouse pollution.
