24 year old Leah from Tuvalu addressed the Melbourne Walk Against Warming Climate Rally detailing some of the effects of climate change being felt now and calling for an ambitious, fair and legally binding climate treaty from the Copenhagen Climate Conference. According to news reports an estimated 40,000 people took part in the Melbourne march and 90,000 around Australia. See report on Australia Indymedia | Photos Melbourne Rally

Video : Engagemedia (5:58) or Youtube (4:15), Tuvalu at Copenhagen: 'The Fate Of My Country Rests In Your Hands'| Tuvalu makes a Stand | Tuvalu Climate Adaption Issues

Saturday 12 December 2009 09:51  | Flere / more → [Indymedia Danmark]

Camp for Climate Action have done it again! Climate campers have taken over Trafalgar Square in central London in yet another demonstration of bold and creative direct action [see press release]. The camp in Trafalgar Square is part of the Cop Out Camp Out action, organised after the Wave demonstration which attracted around 50,000 people. The action comes ahead of the Copenhagen COP15 climate talks taking place next week.

See also: London Indymedia | Protesters take to London Streets | Video of Climate Camp

From the 3rd until the 4th of december the climate caravan, which  travels with international participants from the OMC summit in Geneva to the climate summit on Copenhagen, stopped in Freiburg. After a discussion meeting thursday evening in the "Haus 37" in the Vauban around 100 people took the street with their biycycles to protest for another climate.

Related: Leaders from the Global South protest against WWF International in Geneva

Early on Saturday morning two concerned citizens, Dea Goblirsch and Nick Martin, locked down to a drill rig on Coal River Mountain's Bee Tree mountaintop removal site, effectively stopping blasting. Two others, Grace Williams and Laura Von Dohlen, joined them in direct support, holding a banner with the message "Save Coal River Mountain".

Related: Climate Ground Zero | Coalfield uprising leads to arrests at gov's office | Dr. James Hansen and Daryl Hannah Arrested | Coalfield Uprising Grows, More Sit-ins | Climate Pledge of Resistance | Medically defensible energy policy on climate: phase out coal

Two hundred people blockaded the entrance to the Australian Parliament today calling on Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to secure a strong, legally binding treaty at the upcoming international climate negotiations in Copenhagen. Police arrested 130 people, although it is believed none were charged.

Climate Civil Disobedience action in Canberra | Coal Protestors in court over Brisbane Climate Direct Action | Switch off Hazelwood | Video : Damien Lawson on Civil Disobedience

The latest global assessment of carbon dioxide emissions from human activities shows emissions still rapidly increasing according to a paper published in Nature Geoscience by 31 authors from the Global Carbon Project. This increases the importance for meaningful negotiations on emission reduction targets and a legally binding international climate treaty from Copenhagen to start reducing emissions.

Activists from a Climate Camp in the forests of Indonesia have taken direct action locking down earrthmoving and logging equipment. The site on the Kampar Peninsula of the island of Sumatra is being logged and cleared by Asia Pacific Resources International Holding Ltd (APRIL), one of the largest pulp and paper companies in Indonesia, to make way for tree plantations, grown for pulp and paper. All the activists have been detained by Police.

Related: Climate Defenders Camp established to preserve Indonesian Rainforest Peatlands | Photoset of Direct Action | APRIL watch Blog | Pulpmill watch | REDD Indonesia | Greenpeace Climate Rescue Blog