Feature story - October 24, 2009
Greenpeace activists in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Pietermaritzburg today placed banners on statues of famous South African leaders to urge President Jacob Zuma and other heads of state around the world to take leadership during the critical Climate Summit in Copenhagen this December. This call for active leadership is part of a global day of action, initiated by 350.org [1], involving millions of people in over 170 countries demanding a fair, ambitious and binding deal to prevent catastrophic climate change.
Action Banner on the Nelson Mandela Statue in Johannesburg
350.org is an international campaign dedicated to building a movement to unite the world around solutions to the climate crisis--the solutions that science and justice demand.
For more information visit http://www.350.org/ Greenpeace is part of a large global alliance of organisations calling on the world's leaders to agree to a climate deal that is ambitious, fair and binding.
For more details on http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/climate-change/you-turn-the-earth/october-24th-day-of-climate-action.
For more information, please see these documents: