Rajiv Joshi's blog

All we are hearing form this summit is extremely discouraging, if we do not receieve real solutions to tackling the moral crises: economic collapse, poverty and climate change; then history will judge us harshly as generations are lost….

Kumi Naidoo this morning along with youth activists within the Global Call for Climate Action, presented an e-petition supporting the TCKTCKTCK Campaign to Gordon Brown, calling on G8 leaders to agree firm porposals which will pave the way for a deal at copenhagen.
Gordon Brown was also called upon to reaffirm G8 participation in the Copenhagen summit, with clear porposals which caqn help STOPGLOBALWARMING

GCAP RESPONSE TO G8 COMMUNIQUE

“Plan A has Failed……Lets try Plan A again!” - G8 Leaders Approach

“What we see from G8 leaders today is a complete failure of moral leadership. The response so far is like rearranging the deckchairs on the sinking Titanic, and from today’s statement it is clear they are now rushing for the lifeboats to save the privileged few – leaving the rest of us to drown. The level of support for bank bailouts in one year is more than total support for poverty eradication in the last 50 years.

It is 3.30 on tuesday and we have just hosted a GCAP Press Conference, it has been extremely succesful and journalists are keen to speak with GCAP organisations including partners of GCAP Italy and international NGO members such as Oxfam, Action Aid and the Global Call for Climate Action.
Kumi is speaking along with other representatives from Africa, as well as GCAP Italy, WWF and the Global Campaign for Education. Oxfam and ONE are also participating in this conference as an initial opportunity to brief journalists on Civil Society’s demands form G8 leaders.

We have now arrived at L’Aquilla after leaving Chieti at 6am, it is baking hot, 40degrees and we will be working in media tents, there are around 200 civil society accredited as media. We all fear that the G8 leaders will not take the actions that are urgently needed.