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Media Advisory: New Climate Deal Needs Political & Moral Leadership
17 September 2009  WHO: Cardinal Keith O’Brien, Archbishop of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh, Scotland. Elizabeth Peredo, Director of Fundación Solon, Bolivia Joseph Donnelly, Permanent Delegate to the UN for Caritas Internationalis WHAT: Church leaders and climate experts say the most vulnerable should no longer be sidelined in the climate talks and that world leaders need to attend Copenhagen Today, we jointly say it’s time for Climate Justice! Cardinal Keith O’Brien from the UK and Head of the CIDSE - Caritas delegation to New York said: “I am calling on Heads of States from the wealthy industrialised nations to show the moral and political leadership that is urgently needed if we are to prevent further unnecessary suffering for the poor, and to commit now to going to the Copenhagen Summit in December. Climate change is too important an issue for it to be swamped in political wrangling and preoccupied with national short term interests.” Elyzabeth Peredo said: “I see the devastating impacts of climate change in my daily work. Take smallscale farmers in the high Andes; they struggle to survive as melting glaciers endanger their crop yields. I expect world leaders to give them and poor people around the globe a sign there is hope for a better future.” CIDSE and Caritas Internationalis are together the largest humanitarian and development alliance in the world fighting poverty in over 200 countries. The CIDSE-Caritas Climate Justice delegation will present a joint statement to political leaders, asking them to commit to the Copenhagen climate summit as they have a moral duty to current and future generations to stop global warming and set all nations on a path to sustainable and equitable development. WHEN: Tuesday, 22 September 2009, 3pm - 3.30pm WHERE : United Nations Headquarters, Press Room S-226, 3 United Nations Plaza New York, NY 10017, United States Press pack CONTACT (in New York 20-24 Sept): Roeland Scholtalbers scholtalbers@cidse.org +32 478962013 All speakers and other delegation members will be available for interviews afterwards and during the day. Please RSVP until 21 September. An online press pack outlines our activities during the NY°C Climate Week Note to the Editors: 1) CIDSE is an international alliance of Catholic development agencies working together for global justice. (www.cidse.org). Caritas Internationalis is the biggest network of Catholic charities in the world. It works through its 165 national members to combat poverty and injustice. (www.caritas.org) |
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