It’s pretty simple:  to avoid runaway climate change, the world needs to quit its addiction to coal and stop destroying forests - and that work has to start in Poznan. It has been a year since governments in Bali pledged to nail down an agreement to save the climate by December 2009 in Copenhagen, where the UN talks will conclude.

One year on from Bali, temperature increases, global emission rises, and loss of ice at both the Arctic and Antarctic have all overshot scientists’ worst case scenarios. Plus, there has been slow progress on climate action over the last year, so what was originally an extremely ambitious programme is now under even more pressure to deliver in Copenhagen. 

The world is watching what happens in Poznan, it's time to get serious and focus on one objective: taking action for the survival of our planet.

Here's what we need from our leaders in Poznan:

• a “climate vision” that will address what the science requires: global emissions peaking by 2015.
• a draft negotiating text on the table and
• a detailed workplan to get this completed by Copenhagen in December 2009
  Developed countries must agree greenhouse gas emission reduction targets at the upper end of 25-40%, as identified by the IPCC