Copenhagen - December 2009

Decision time: we need a new global climate deal!

Copenhagen is a pivotal moment in world history - never has there been a greater chance to get things right.

We can yet avoid a global catastrophe of dimensions that are unheard of, but we can also learn the decisive lessons of how to manage this planet.

This is why the U.N. conference at Copenhagen in December 2009 is the most crucial political arena regarding climage change: it will be there that each country in the international community will come together to agree on a new global climate deal that will replace the Kyoto protocol and define how we deal with climate change in the future.

What we need is a fair, effective, and science-based climate deal in Copenhagen.

But Copenhagen could also go wrong.

And this is why we need your help to show our world leaders that we must now grasp the opportunities that serious action against climate change holds for us. Instead of being held by shortsighted concerns, we must come together around the common goal of fighting climate change.

We have most of the scientific know-how, and the technology. The U.N. conference in Copenhagen is where we will have the chance to show that we also have the political decisiveness to fight climate change.

The decisions made there will shape what planet the next generations will inherit. For their sake and ours, world leaders need to get it right in Copenhagen.

The moment when the planet stops breathing...

Global temperatures are rising, due to emissions from the richer half of the world's population.

In the wake of the recent financial meltdown, there are parallels to be found in the world's mismanagement of nature and the credit crisis that has metastasized into a global recession.

Both situations teach us there's only so much debt that can be incurred before there are catastrophic consequences. But when nature goes bankrupt, there won't be anyone who can bail us out.