Greens welcome Global Campaign for Climate Action

“The GCCA is planning exciting mobilizing actions in the next few months and I look forward to the increased media coverage on climate change and the UN negotiations, something that has been slipping recently,” said Green Climate Critic Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu.  “Having the GCCA Secretariat office in Montreal puts pressure on Canada.”

Here’s the full Green Party of Canada news release:

The Green Party of Canada welcomes the creation of the Global Campaign for Climate Action (GCCA), a coalition of twenty key international organizations working to increase public pressure on the world’s governments to take action on climate change.  “This initiative began in Bali with a $300,000 funding commitment from the Quebec government, and it is wonderful to see it come to fruition,” said Green Leader Elizabeth May. “Climate change must stay front and centre on governmental agendas around the world and the GCCA will ensure that governments know the public is solidly behind immediate and meaningful action on the climate crisis.”

Groups included in the Global Campaign for Climate Action (GCCA) include OXFAM, WWF, World Council of Churches, Union of Concerned Scientists, Equiterre, 350, Avaaz, Greenpeace, Global Humanitarian Forum, Global Call to Action against Poverty, and the Pew Environment Group.  The Group will open its headquarters in Montreal.

“The GCCA is planning exciting mobilizing actions in the next few months and I look forward to the increased media coverage on climate change and the UN negotiations, something that has been slipping recently,” said Green Climate Critic Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu.  “Having the GCCA Secretariat office in Montreal puts pressure on Canada.”

A key goal of the group is to obtain positive negotiating results at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change meeting which will be held December 7-18, 2009 in Copenhagen.

“So far Canada has been a negative force at UN climate negotiations, going so far as to try to block any progress,” said May. “Unfortunately, Canadians are in desperate need of a group like the Global Campaign for Climate Action to pressure our leaders to take the wishes of the public seriously and work toward real solutions before it is too late.”