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1. On site, President Barack Obama said "Can we quit coal? Yes
we can. I and my colleagues are fired up and ready to go to
Copenhagen, where we're going to help the world kick its carbon
habit for good."
2. "I'm putting my body on the line to stop climate change,"
added Chancellor Angela Merkel. "The least my fellow leaders can do
now is put money on the table to unlock negotiations for a deal in
Copenhagen."
3. "The Greenland ice sheet is melting faster than anyone
expected," said Lindsay Keenan, Greenpeace Nordic climate
campaigner. "Now is the time to take action. Sea-level rise will
impact the homes of at least one in ten people on the planet this
century. This coal-fired madness has to stop."
4. The activists are supporting Greenpeace's call for a
commitment of $140bn a year from developed nations to fund
adaption, mitigation and forest protection measures in developing
nations.
5. The world can do without coal. The Greenpeace energy
revolution scenario shows how our societies can be powered without
coal, using clean energy sources like wind and solar instead. We
can and must be smarter with energy and use it in a more efficient
way. Last month Greenpeace calculated that its energy revolution
scenario is actually a green new deal. It will create 2.7 million
more jobs world wide by 2030 than the business as usual scenarios
based on fossil fuels.
6. At Copenhagen Greenpeace
demands a fair, binding and ambitious deal that:-
- Emissions cuts of at least 40% by 2020 from the developed
world
- An end to tropical deforestation by 2015
- $140 billion a year to support adaption, mitigation and forest
protection in the developing world