Full feedTo the phones! Call your leader and demand they attend the Copenhagen Climate Summit!
Dear climate activist,
Last night the Danish Government invited heads of state from every nation on Earth to attend the Climate Summit in Copenhagen this December. More than a million of us have already made this demand through the tck tck tck campaign! Yet to date, only Gordon Brown (UK), Donald Tusk (Poland) and Jan Peter Balkenende (Netherlands) have said they’ll attend -- the rest have simply left the fate of our planet to their environment ministers.
Every head of state needs to go to Copenhagen and take personal responsibility for preventing catastrophic climate change. So we’re asking you and millions of people like you around the world to pick up the phone now and call your head of state.
Find their phone number here:
If you get through, just ask them if your leader is going to accept the Danish Government's invitation to personally attend the Copenhagen Climate Summit in December. Make a record of who you speak to, what you’re told and leave a comment reporting back to us here. Ask them to register your request and pass it along to your leader.
Denmark has opened the door -- now we need to push.
One activist in London got through to UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who spent three minutes on the phone with him and pledged to attend. Could you be the one to put your head of state on record?
One phone-call could change the world. So pick up the phone, and find out if it’s yours.
Your friends,
Team Climate
P.S. We can all be button-popping proud that Adam Vaughan of the Guardian said this about our campaign to get leaders to Copenhagen:
"These digital campaigners can already claim some success. When Gordon Brown announced on Sunday that he'd be attending Copenhagen – which is a meeting of environment ministers, not world leaders – more than a little credit belonged to Greenpeace and BeThatChange..."
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Comments
I called Silvio Berlusconi's office. I spoke to his secretary who directed me to the diplomacy office. Quite apt as she didn't really grasp the concept of diplomacy herself. The diplomacy office stated that I must check the website www.governo.it to find out if and when he will attend the Copenhagen summit. In my opinion you need to get the wake-up call project amplified in Italy. Not enough people know about it. So if you're Italian call 0667791 and speak to your leader!
Posted by: Hayley Nielsen | September 28, 2009 1:12 PM
I called from Dam square with a whole bunch of people at the rally last week, got through to Balkenende's personal secretary. She thanked me politely and told me they were registering all the calls. I asked her to hold on for a minute, because I was with about a hundred friends who were having trouble getting through, and they too wanted to ask that Balkenende not just go to Copenhagen, but that he demand a FAIR , AMBITIOUS, BINDING deal. Crowd WHOOPED.
I asked her if she had "registered that."
She laughed, and said she did.
Job done.
Can somebody please get through to Obama????
Posted by: Brian | October 3, 2009 10:38 AM
I called Stephen Harper's office and was redirected to one of his assistants. Unfortunately, I had to leave a message, so I asked that he attend and that he demand a fair, ambitious and binding treaty.
Posted by: Sasha | October 7, 2009 9:31 AM
I have phone Senator Hillary CLinton urging her to attend the Copenhagen CLimate CHamnge SUmmit and to Act for OUR MOTHER EARTH , as CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL and needs to be addressed. I also asked and urged her to ask other leaders in Washington to ACT quickely and please attend for our citizens sake and for our future generation.
Posted by: Julie Ann Scott | October 7, 2009 9:39 PM
John Gormely the Irish minister of Environment and the leader of the Irish Green Party will be attending the talks in Copenhagen.
Posted by: yvonne loughrey | October 19, 2009 3:38 PM
I made a submission to the NZ parliament about the amendments to the emissions trading scheme.(which make an already weak scheme weaker)
I asked to appear in person to make my submission but was able to give my submission by phone.
Havent got thru to John Key in person yet but will keep trying!
This was less scary and avoided the need to travel and take time off work.
I urge every one to pester their parliament. If we aall do it hopefully our leaders will listen
Posted by: jan miller | November 3, 2009 6:12 AM
You need to update the phone list of the political leaders of Greece because government changed about a month ago.
Posted by: Anonymous | November 8, 2009 7:12 PM
I spoke Kevin Rudds office in Australia. Whether Kevin Rudd was intending on accepting his invitation to the Summit in December. And I was rudely told that she was not allowed to give out that information. I then asked for her name as she replied 'I wont give you that information either'. She redirected me to the Climate Change Department and they told me they were not informed on Kevin Rudds diary and that i should be talking to parliment.. I'll keep trying :]
Posted by: Tayla Wallace | November 17, 2009 1:36 AM