Posted by Claire Petit, Greenpeace Activist
Wednesday December 2nd, 2009 - Today the theme of the national day at the vigil is "France" so my team lead the march to the French embassy here at Copenhagen. We chose the rooster to "wake up" President Sarkozy -- complete with a rooster suit worn by Carmen from Spain and a rooster crowing in the background.
The rhythm of the march were French songs and slogans like “Aucune, Aucune, Aucune hésitation ! Oui, Oui, Oui, Prenez une décision !” or « Sarko réveille toi, le climat n’attend pas, réveille toi, le climat n’attend pas lala lalalala ». And we also danced the French Cancan in front of the embassy. When we entered the embassy the whole place was filled by the sound of the drums and the crow of the rooster.
We met with Ms. Bérengère Quincy who is the French Ambassador in Denmark for half an hour. She started the meeting by presenting the efforts made by French government and that it was a leader in the European Union. When we were finally able to express and defend our opinion we told her how important it was that France should also be a leader globally. We need President Sarkozy to to make a strong decision at the Climate Change Summit. She understood that we were not only a group of young people demonstrating but that we also act on climate change in our university.
To thank our ambassador and to let her a souvenir, we offered her an advent calendar. We made it that way that each day contains a photo of Solar Generation France’s activities and some statistics about drastic consequences of climate change.
The message had been sent.
Some snow fell on Copenhagen at the end of the day.