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Climate rescue station at Copenhagen

Background - December 8, 2009
The NGO Climate Rescue Station will be in Copenhagen - at the Bella Center - throughout the climate summit.DIRECTIONS: After passing through the registration area and the ID badge checkpoint, walk directly ahead past the cloakroom and through the exhibition area towards a set of double doors, above which is a banner advertising the NGO Climate Rescue Station. Push through the doors, turn left and the Climate Rescue Station will be in front of you. Click here for a map.

Climate Rescue Staion at Copenhagen

Daily events:

7.30- 9.30: Greenpeace will serve free organic coffee from the Climate Rescue Station every morning

09.30-11.00: Members of the Global Campaign for Climate Action (GCCA) daily meeting

Monday 7 December Tuesday 8 December Wednesday 9 December Thursday 10 December Friday 11 December Saturday 12 December Monday 14 December Tuesday 15 December Wednesday 16 December Thursday 17 December Friday 18 December

Monday 7 December

11.00-16.00: Exhibition "Arctic Meltdown"

Images taken by world class photographer Nick Cobbing documenting Greenpeace's expedition to Greenland's melting glaciers this summer, gathering scientific data.

16.00-18.00: Movie screening by the GCCA - "The Age of Stupid".

The Age of Stupid is the new four-year epic from McLibel director Franny Armstronga> . Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite  stars as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: Why didn't we stop climate change while we had the chance?

Tuesday 8 December

11.00-18.00: "Voices from China" presentation - Greenpeace

Greenpeace China will display video clips by Chinese people appealing to Heads of States and delegation members at the COP to agree the deal the world needs to save the climate. Chinese souvenirs will be handed out asking China and the US to show leadership in Copenhagen.

18.00-20.00: Movie Screening of "Earth Hour" - WWF

Earth Hour asks people around the world to turn off their lights for one hour to show support for action on climate change. It began in Sydney, Australia in 2007. In 2009, more than 4,000 cities in 88 countries participated.

Wednesday 9 December

18.30-22.00: Official opening of "Consequences" - Greenpeace and NOOR."Consequences" is a photo exhibition of climate impacts the world is already suffering. The images were gathered by NOOR photographers in 2009, and will be displayed for the first time in the Climate Rescue Station. The 9 NOOR photographers are world class, and have received several prestigious awards. The photographers, as well as Greenpeace International Executive Director, Kumi Naidoo will speak at the opening about their work.

The exhibition will be opened by a concert by Andreas Ensemblet

Thursday 10 December

12.30-16.00: Video from the Nobel Prize ceremony in Oslo, as Barack Obama receives the peace prize.

16.00-18.00: Event highlighting Human Rights Day 'Global Call to Action against Poverty'.Human Rights Day is celebrated across the world on 10th December, every year. The date was chosen to honour the United Nations General Assembly's adoption and proclamation, on 10 December 1948, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the first global enunciation of human rights.

18.00-22.00: Climate Impacts Photo Exhibition "Consequences" - Greenpeace and NOOR

Friday 11 December

11.00-13.00: Climate Impacts Photo Exhibition "Consequences" - Greenpeace and NOOR

13:00 - 15:00: "Climate Issues in the Arab Region", by IndyActPanel discussion on the role of the Arab region in the climate negotiations, the talk particularly focuses on oil exporting regions.

15:00 - 18:00: Climate Impacts Photo Exhibition "Consequences" by Greenpeace and NOOR

18:00 - 20:00: Movie Screening "Nepali Climate Witnesses" - WWF Documentation of two Nepali climate witnesses, Apa Sherpa and Dawa Steven Sherpa. Apa Sherpa holds the world record for the most ascents of Mount Everest.

21:00 - 23:00: Movie screening of "The Age of Stupid"

The Age of Stupid is the new four-year epic from McLibel director Franny Armstrong. Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: Why didn't we stop climate change while we had the chance?

Saturday 12 December - Global Day of Action on Climate Change

11:00 - 12:30: Press conference by 'Brot für die Welt' (Bread of the World)

Bread for the World is a collective Christian voice urging the world's decision makers to end hunger at home and abroad.

13:00 - 18:00: Videos and photos from the Global Day of Action Climate DemonstrationOn the Global Day of Action people from all over the world will unite in international demonstrations on climate change. In Copenhagen people a peaceful demonstration from Christiansborg Slotsplads to Bella Center will urge world leaders to act now to save the climate.

18.00 - 22.00: Candle light vigil

As the demonstration reaches the Bella Center people will gather in the Climate Rescue Station to join a candle light vigil. Join us.

Monday 14 December

11:00 - 16:00: Climate Impacts Photo Exhibition "Consequences" - Greenpeace and NOOR

16:00 - 18:00: Movie screening of "Vote Earth" - WWF

Earth Hour asks people around the world to turn off their lights for one hour to show support for action on climate change. It began in Sydney, Australia in 2007. In 2009, more than 4,000 cities in 88 countries participated.

18:00 - 22:00: Movie screening of the award winning documentary 'GREEN' by Patrick Rouxel

The movie tells the devastating story of the effects of mass deforestation in Indonesia's paradise forests. Forest destruction is disastrous for our climate, indigenous peoples and biodiversity.

Tuesday 15 December

12:30 - 16:00: Climate Impacts Photo Exhibition "Consequences" by Greenpeace and NOOR

16:00 - 18:00: Video screening of "The Age of Stupid"

The Age of Stupid is the new four-year epic from McLibel director Franny Armstrong. Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: Why didn't we stop climate change while we had the chance? 

18:00 - 21:00: "iSky" - presentation of pioneering forest monitoring technology by Greenpeace and Imazon

Protecting ancient forests is vital to tackle climate change and protect the livelihoods of millions of forest people. But real protection requres credible forest monitoring. In 2009 Greenpeace and Imazon worked together in the Amazon on pilot project iSky - a state of the art forest monitoring system that uses satellite and aerial images. The technology will make it possible to eventually monitor forests all over the  world. Tonight Greenpeace and Imazon presents the pilot project.

Wednesday 16 December

15:00 - 16:00: "World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts" (WAGGGS)

The young WAGGGS delegates will present adaptation/mitigation and disaster preparedness projects and invite participants to a debate on how girls and young women can lead the way to a sustainable future. The second part of the session is a workshop introducing different methods devised by young people that young people can use to combat climate change.

16:00 - 18:00: Climate Impacts Photo Exhibition "Consequences" by Greenpeace and NOOR

18:00 - 21:00: Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands - Greenpeace

Presented by Greenpeace Canada, Peter Mettler's Aerial perspectives on the tar sands documents the biggest capital and industrial development in the world, and one of the biggest climate crimes. Extracting and upgrading the heavy bitumen emits 3-5 times more greenhouse gas emissions than the production of conventional oil. Tar sands operations use and pollute around 349 cubic metres of water a year, and pour 11 million litres of toxic sludge into the Athabasca river every day.

Thursday 17 December

11:00 - 16:00: Climate Impacts Photo Exhibition "Consequences" - Greenpeace and NOOR

18:00 - 21:00:  Documentary "The road from Kyoto to Copenhagen" - WWF

At the end of November a delegation of experts and activists heading for Denmark will set sail from Japan towards Vladivostock where a special train offered by the Russian railway company will be waiting for them. Once on board, the delegation will travel for two weeks through immense and scarcely populated territories of central Russia.

Friday 18 December

11:00 - 18:00: Climate Impacts Photo Exhibition "Consequences" by Greenpeace and NOOR