In one month, 192 countries will meet at the international climate summit in Copenhagen [2] to negotiate a new global treaty to prevent catastrophic climate change.
Everyone, including our political leaders, know what needs to be done in the deal: it must be fair, ambitious and binding. But at talks this week in Barcelona -- which aimed at trying to build consensus on key issues ahead of the final discussions -- progress was idling and political will was nowhere to be seen. Even as leaders from the developing world challenged developed countries to adopt real climate targets.
It's clear that the UN process requires a massive injection of political will, the sort that can only be provided by real climate leadership.
Today, aliens from Planet B went looking for climate leaders. Their message was delivered loud and clear to delegates by partners from the 350.org, TckTckTck campaign, Avaaz, IndyAct, Greenpeace, and Oxfam -- watch the videos below.
While the action has humorous, in a time where boys believed to be in UFO shaped balloons get wall-to-wall coverage and the lack of political leadership on the fate of our planet and people get little attention, we figured it was time to conduct a search for some leadership. They just wanted us to "Take us to your climate leaders!" and lets hope they find some:
The first video is right when the aliens "landed" in the middle of the conference space:
The second one shows them going hunting through the Barcelona conference center for specific leaders:
Links:
[1] http://tcktcktck.org/files/stories/4079574591_8f95ee45c3.jpg
[2] http://unfccc.int/2860.php