Wow. It's been quite a day. Over 2,682 events were held in 134 countries today to wake up the world to climate change.

Organized by TckTckTck partners and amazing individuals from every walk of life, the Global Climate Wake Up Call garnered a monsterous amount of news coverage - there will be very few world leaders that will pick up their local newspaper or turn on their local news channel and NOT see people in the streets telling them to wake up and be the leaders we need them to be on this important issue.

Here's a sampling of some the news coverage for today's Global Climate Wake Up Call:

  • Climate activists phone blitz Prime Minister
    Reuters UK - LONDON -- About 300 environmentalists converged on parliament on Monday and chanted "tick! tick! tick! tick!" to symbolise a wake-up call to world leaders ahead of December's U.N. climate summit in Copenhagen.
  • Recession and policies cut carbon
    BBC - LONDON -- The global recession and a range of government policies are likely to bring the biggest annual fall in the world's carbon dioxide emissions in 40 years.
  • Obama to shift focus to climate change
    LA Times - WASHINGTON -- The president faces serious challenges on global warming as the Copenhagen summit looms. He will speak to the United Nations and at a G-20 conference this week.
  • 'Flash mobs' send world's politicians climate wake-up call
    CBC - TORONTO -- Activists across Canada and around the world used their mobile phones on Monday to stage demonstrations urging world leaders to act on climate change.
  • G-20 protesters allege Pittsburgh police harassment in suit, ask for emergency hearing
    Washington Post - PITTSBURGH -- Two protest groups filed a lawsuit Monday asking for an emergency hearing into allegations that Pittsburgh police harassed them in the run-up to the Group of 20 global economic summit.
  • Climate change flash mobs demand wake up call
    3 News - NEW ZEALAND -- A melting ice sculpture of John Key in June was intended to make him ‘feel the weight’ of climate change, today New Zealanders told Key to ‘wake up!’ with a bulk calling of the Prime Minister at exactly 12:18pm.
  • UN climate chief says China poised to lead
    Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AP) - UNITED NATIONS -- As the United States lags on climate legislation, China is poised to join the European Union in claiming "front-runner" status among nations battling climate change, the U.N. climate chief said Monday.
  • Avaaz sonne l'alarme climatique
    Swisscom - SWITZERLAND -- Partout dans le monde ont lieu aujourd'hui des évènements sensés réveiller les consciences des décideurs politiques à l'importance du sommet de Copenhague qui aura lieu en décembre de cette année.
  • Brown To Flashmob: I'll Go To Climate Summit
    EWeek Europe - LONDON -- Prime Minister Gordon Brown has told a flashmob, assembled outside the Houses of Parliament, that he will go to the UN Climate Change Summit in Oslo in December.
  • Wake-up call on climate change across the globe today
    The International News - KARACHI -- As many as 1,500 events for the great global climate wake-up call are taking place on Sept 21 (today), including 153 in Brazil, 95 in France, and 26 in New Zealand. In Pakistan, two events have been organised in Karachi, one in Hyderabad and one in Islamabad.
  • La hora del planeta
    ADN - SPAIN -- Las ONG exigen el acuerdo climático | Miles de personas han sido convocadas hoy a las 12.18 para manifestarse por el clima
  • Global Leaders Get Wake-Up Call By Protesters In Pittsburgh
    WPXI Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh -- Global leaders got a "wake-up call" by protesters Monday in downtown Pittsburgh. It was part of a climate demonstration
  • Despertar por el cambio climático
    La Voz - SAN JUAN -- En Córdoba, harán sonar los despertadores a las 12.18 en la esquina de Vélez Sársfield y San Juan .
  • Bahrain urged to join campaign for worldwide action
    Gulf Daily News - BAHRAIN -- Bahrain's residents are being invited to give "a wake up call" to world leaders for further action on climate change.
  • Flash protesters call for more action to tackle climate change
    Oxford Mail - OXFORD -- Climate protesters synchronised their watches as a “wake-up call” to world leaders about global warming.
  • "RV lundi Mairie Bayonne 12h18 ;-) Bizi"
    EITB - BASQUE NORD -- Le collectif d'alerte climatique du Pays Basque nord, Bizi !, appelle à une "mobilisation flash" ce lundi, à 12h18 pile devant la Mairie de Bayonne, en amont de toute une série d'actions prévues.
  • World leaders called on to back global climate campaign
    Bangladesh News - BANGLADESH -- Citizens at over 2,400 events in 130 countries around the world on Monday will be calling their leaders to ask them to take action on climate change, for the Global Wake Up Call.
  • Regina demonstrators plan to 'make some noise' at Global Climate Wakeup Call event
    Regina Leader-Post - REGINA -- Regina is participating in a global campaign to raise awareness about climate change.
  • Weltweiter Flashmob mit Handyklingeln - auch in Karlsruhe
    Ka-News - KARLSRUHE -- Am heutigen Montag hatte die Organisation Avaaz.org zu einem globalen Klimaweckruf aufgerufen. Über 2.200 Flashmobs und andere Aktionen mit über einer Million Teilnehmern weltweit hatten sich bereits im Vorfeld zu dieser Aktion angemeldet.
  • Wake-up call from Amersham to world leaders
    Bucks Free Press - AMERSHAM -- Demonstrators gathered in Amersham and more than a thousand cities around the world to send a deafening wake-up call on climate change to world leaders today.
  • News in Pictures on Monday
    Singapore Straits Times - AUSTRALIA - A man dressed in a caricature of Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and pyjamas sits on a bed as a young boy approaches at St Kilda beach in Melbourne. International aid and development agency Oxfam Australia tries to highlight the need for world leaders, including Mr Rudd, to 'wake up to climate change'

 

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