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In 2009, the UN Climate Change Conference was held in Copenhagen. Hopes were high that the top tables would put aside their differences – just for once – to tackle an immense environmental challenge and avert catastrophe.

The failure to come to a meaningful and significant agreement means that climate change will continue and, even if the world can come to a realistic position in the future, the immediate lack of action will have huge consequences. Save the Children, for instance, said that the outcome of Copenhagen was “a death warrant for many of the world’s poorest children. Up to 250,000 children from poor communities could die before …the end of [2010]“.

Every day that the world fails to act on the environment makes it harder to make a change and it makes it one day closer to the day any attempt to change will fail.

Now, if you started reading here or on the Twitter, you will know that I got a bit agitated during Copenhagen 2009. So, you are almost certainly wondering what I am going on about now.

Well, I always felt that while a few people were conscious that the Copenhagen conference was about to happen in the weeks running up to it, most people did not know. So, here’s your early morning call:

UN CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE, CANCUN, MEXICO
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2010 – FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2010

I will be posting more things here in the run up to the Conference but I need your help.  Please take a second to share and retweet this post and others.  Sign in and comment, pledge your help, tell me what we can do – if you don’t know, don’t worry!  Just sign in and pledge to do something.  Between us, we have a wide circle of friends, contacts and influencers and, together, we can make a difference.

This may be a second chance.  It may be a last chance.  But it is definitely our chance to let people know what we think.

Capitalism isn’t working, originally uploaded by jamesmb.

This banner was on the Peace Camp at Parliament Square that has just been closed down – www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-10659518

The end of the Peace Camp on Parliament Square, originally uploaded by jamesmb.

I went to London recently and had a chat with Brian Haw – his picture is elsewhere on my photostream.

He was scathing about the ‘peace camp’ that had spring up around him. It was a distraction and a mess and nothing to do with him. Today, the ‘peace camp’ lost the latest round of its eviction battle. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-10659518

To be honest, it was a mess and badly kept and, if it was meant to be making a point, it wasn’t doing it very well.