Countdown to Copenhagen: Join the international campaign "Don’ t nuke the climate!"

Participate in the "Don’t nuke the climate!" day, slated to take place on the same date as the World Climate Day, on Saturday, 12 December 2009

17.11.2009 | Karin Adolph

At the Copenhagen Summit in December 2009, world leaders will have to reach a new agreement on the climate. Their decisions will be based on two requisites:

setting ambitious objectives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions;
adopting relevant measures to fight climate change and to adapt our societies to their consequences by allocating the necessary financial resources.

Despite much contriving from its supporters, nuclear energy has until now been rightly excluded from the means to fight climate change acknowledged by climate agreements. Nonetheless, a number of facts indicate that the nuclear industry, in collaboration with certain countries, is striving to have this dangerous, polluting technology declared "clean" in order to have it included in emission mitigation mechanisms and thereby to be able to take advantage of significant investments, to the detriment of the real solutions!

This is why we are hereby inviting you to participate in the "Don’t nuke the climate!" international campaign, coordinated by the French Network for Nuclear Phase-Out.

A web petition, translated into a great many languages, is already available to organisations and citizens from countries throughout the world to participate and to help disseminate the campaign. Our goal is to collect tens of thousands of signatures from citizens from countries throughout the world. These signatures collected through the Internet will be printed on individual petition postcards, which will be presented in Copenhagen to decision-makers.

Sign the petition: www.dont-nuke-the-climate.org

Some additional things you can do:

So as to personify with thousands of human faces the world’s refusal to use nuclear energy as a solution in preventing climate change, we also call on citizens from all over the world to send us their photo by means of the campaign’s website: www.dont-nuke-the-climate.org.

Address your elected representatives in your country before the Copenhagen summit to ask them supporting a nuclear-free climate agreement.
Participate in the "Don’t nuke the climate!" day, slated to take place on the same date as the World Climate Day, on Saturday, 12 December 2009. Organise special events (street events, film projections, open debates, etc.) in your city or region to express your refusal to consider nuclear energy as a solution to climate change. All of these operations will be promoted on the campaign website: www.dont-nuke-the-climate.org.

We thank you greatly for your support!

Aufruf: Beteiligen Sie sich an der internationalen Kampagne "Don 't nuke the Climate»!

Auf dem Klimagipfel Kopenhagen im Dezember in Kopenhagen wollen die führenden Politiker der Welt neue Klimavereinbarung treffen.

Ihre Entscheidungen werden sich auf zwei Voraussetzungen berufen:

Ziele zur Verringerung der Treibhausgasemissionen;
Einführung von entsprechenden Maßnahmen zur Bekämpfung des Klimawandels sowie die Anpassung unserer Gesellschaft an die Konsequenzen des Klimawandels mithilfe notwendiger finanzieller Ressourcen.

Trotz vieler Versuche der Atomlobby ist die Kernenergie bis heute zu Recht von den Maßnahmen zur Bekämpfung des Klimawandels ausgeschlossen.

Dennoch deuten eine Reihe von Fakten darauf hin, dass die Atomindustrie in Zusammenarbeit mit bestimmten Ländern, sehr bemüht darum ist, diese gefährliche, umweltbelastende und menschenverachtende Technologie als "sauber" zu erklären, um sie in die Liste der emissionsverringernden Mechanismen mit aufzunehmen und damit in die Lage zu kommen, erhebliche finanzielle Fördermittel zu nutzen - und das zu Lasten wirklicher Lösungen.

Um dem entgegenzuwirken, laden wir Sie hiermit herzlich ein, sich an der internationalen Kampagne "Don't nuke the Climate!“ zu beteiligen, die vom französischen Netzwerk für den Atomausstieg koordiniert wird.

Unser Ziel ist es, Zehntausende von Unterschriften von Bürgern aus Ländern der ganzen Welt zu sammeln. Die Unterschriften werden über das Internet gesammelt und auf einzelne Postkarten gedruckt, um sie anschließend den politischen Entscheidungsträgern in Kopenhagen zu präsentieren.

Unterschreiben Sie bitte die Petition unter: www.dont-nuke-the-climate.org
Vielen Dank für Ihre Unterstützung!

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