tcktcktck — Copenhagen 7 Dec 09 | The World Is Ready

BARCELONA (November 4, 2009) — Given the scary hazards of climate change – more killer storms, rising seas, farmland turning to dust, and time running out on reaching agreement on a global plan that leads to a solution  – a bit of humor and irony is probably a good thing. Early Monday morning, at the start of the final negotiating session before a big climate conference next month in Copenhagen, delegates from 192 countries were greeted by the insistent beeping and whining of hundreds of bedside alarm clocks.

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TckTckTck partner Health Care Without Harm held a press conference today in Barcelona to call on the international community to move aggressively in order to prevent further human health impacts from climate change.

“It is impossible to have healthy people on an unhealthy planet,” said Health Care Without Harm spokesperson Josh Karliner.

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This afternoon in Barcelona, TckTckTck Campaign Director Ben Margolis presented U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer with one of the 1,000 ringing alarm clocks used to wake up negotiators from around the world as they arrived on Monday to continue climate negotiations leading up to Copenhagen.

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BARCELONA, Nov. 2 (Xinhua) -- As a new round of UN climate change talks began here Monday, climate activists gathered in the Spanish city to ring 1,000 alarm clocks in front of the conference venue to remind delegates that time is "running out" for a deal.

Ben Margolis, an organizer of the TickTickTick campaign, said: "We will deliver these tick ticking clocks to delegates here for the negotiations to remind them that time is running out for a deal to be made."

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Groggy delegates and observers arriving today in Barcelona for the final round of negotiations prior to Copenhagen were welcomed by TckTckTck’s cacophony of 1,000 ringing alarm clocks piercing the morning air in front of the Fira Gran Via conference hall.

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Barcelona, November 2, 2009: – One thousand alarm clocks rang at 8.30 this morning to welcome delegates to the last international climate meeting before the major summit begins in Copenhagen in December.

The TckTckTck campaign – an unprecedented global alliance which represents more than 200 development, humanitarian and environment organizations - brought together hundreds of Barcelona residents and conference observers to provide a “wake up” call to the government negotiators attending the meeting.

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 WHAT:  Barcelona residents and visitors holding 1000 alarm ringing clocks – as government delegates  arrive at the last international climate talks before the Copenhagen Summit. TckTckTck campaigns director Ben Margolis will be available for interview on the opening of the talks.

WHY: To “wake up” these representatives of world leaders to the urgent need for them to make progress towards a fair, ambitious and binding deal when the climate change talks begin in Barcelona – with just weeks before the Copenhagen summit. 

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