March for Just Solutions on climate change

by Fiona Montgomery

Demonstrations will be held around the world on 6 December demanding urgent action on climate change. The aim of the Global Day of Action is to put pressure on world leaders at the United Nations Climate Change talks in Poznan, Poland.

The Scottish Climate Change Campaign is urging UNISON members to support a march in Glasgow on the theme: Act on climate change: Just Solutions now! Branches are invited to bring along placards with their own messages on that theme demanding politicians prioritise tackling global warming.

Last year actions were held on every continent during the Bali UN Climate Change Talks. Matthew Crighton, of City of Edinburgh UNISON, is helping organise the event.

Matthew said: "The call to action is that we demand that world leaders take the urgent and resolute action that is needed to prevent the catastrophic destabilisation of global climate, so that the entire world can move as rapidly as possible to a stronger emissions reductions treaty which is both equitable and effective in minimising dangerous climate change.

"We demand that the long-industrialised countries that have emitted most greenhouse gases take responsibility by immediately reducing their own emissions as well as investing in a clean energy revolution in the developing world.

"Developed countries must take their fair share of the responsibility to pay for the adaptive measures that have to be taken, especially by low-emitting countries with limited economic resources. "Climate change will hit the poorest first and hardest. All who have the economic means to act, must therefore urgently and decisively do so."

Messages of support and enquiries can be sent to taliesin@gmail.com

**Remember to email your MSP for a strong Scottish Climate Change Bill. Go to: www.unison-scotland.org.uk/greenworkplace/respondmsp.html

Full details of the march and information about rally speakers will be posted on the Stop Climate Chaos Scotland website news page once plans are finalised. www.stopclimatechaos scotland.org, or www.globalclimate campaign.org

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