This is the generation that must stop the spread of the pollution that is slowly killing our planet... Rolling back the tide of a warming planet is a responsibility that we have to ourselves, to our children, and all of those who will inherit creation long after we are gone.
Barack Obama, Strasbourg, April 2009
2009 needs to be remembered as the year the world found an answer to climate change.
The year it found the political will to meet the challenge and found hope and opportunity in doing so.
For out of crisis comes opportunity.
And out of the twin perils of financial and climatic crises comes the opportunity to bring the global economy back in line with global ecology.
To put the future development of the world economy – for ALL its citizens – on a sustainable foundation.
THAT is the challenge
and the opportunity of 2009.
And in Copenhagen, in early December, 2009, is where we will see if that OPPORTUNITY IS TAKEN.
