Environmentalists and Business Leaders Take the Climate Express to Copenhagen

Kyoto/Barcelona, 5 November 2009 - More than 400 climate change negotiators, business leaders and environmental activists will travel together on board the Climate Express train to Copenhagen in a call for world leaders to agree a fair, ambitious and binding deal to address climate change when they meet at the UN climate summit in Denmark. Achim Steiner, the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, will board the train alongside Franny Armstrong, the producer and director of the film 'The Age of Stupid', Luo Hong, the wildlife photographer and UNEP Climate Hero, and Apa Sherpa a WWF Climate Witness who holds the world record for the most ascents of Mount Everest, Yoshio Ishida, UIC Chairman and Vice Chairman of East Japan railways, Jean-Pierre Loubinoux, the Director General of the International Union of Railways (UIC).

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UNFCCC Executive Secretary: Governments Can and must Deliver Strong Copenhagen Deal

Barcelona, 6 November 2009 ? The last negotiating session before the historic UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December concluded Friday in Barcelona, Spain. Speaking at a press conference in Barcelona, UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer reiterated that Copenhagen must result in a strong international climate change deal. "Copenhagen can and must be the turning point in the international fight against climate change - nothing has changed my confidence in that," he said. "A powerful combination of commitment and compromise can and must make this happen," he added.

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