Our Demand Climate Justice campaign called on world leaders to make a fair and credible deal for tackling climate change during the Copenhagen climate talks. Unfortunately, the outcome was deeply disappointing with only a non legally binding accord that is little more than a political statement. 

What we demanded:

• An agreement that will result in the world warming by less than 2 degrees
• Adequate finance for developing countries to grown in a clean way and to cope with the effects of climate change
• Wealthy industrialised countries to commit to at least 40% cuts in emissions domestically by 2020
• Not allowing cuts to be achieved by buying carbon credits from developing countries

What we got:

• A vague promise of half the money that is needed by 2020
• Inadequate targets which the UN believe will lead to a 3 degree rise in global temperatures
• No legal framework and no timetable to fix it.

World leaders will be meeting again in Mexico in December 2010. 

Find out more about the background to the talks.

Analysis of Copenhagen

Our Chief Executive, Duncan McLaren, was blogging from Copenhagen throughout the talks. Read his blog to find out how it all unravelled. He was part of the Friends of the Earth International delegation that was refused access to the conference centre part of the way through the talks.

Read our response to the Copenhagen Accord, explaining what the talks were all about, what went wrong, and how we'll move forward.

Friends of the Earth International produced detailed briefings throughout the talks: download the final briefing.

Our Activists in Copenhagen

30 Friends of the Earth Scotland activists went on an overland journey to Copenhagen to participate in Friends of the Earth Europe's Flood for Climate Justice. View the photos of the Flood on Flickr.

Climate Radio did daily broadcasts on Resonance FM, and this is the report from the train trip from London to Copenhagen, featuring FoES activists and Duncan McLaren. Listen to Copenhagen Express (24 minutes)

In Scotland our activists took part in a day of action and collected video clips of people in Scotland stating their demands to world leaders. View the photos of the Glasgow day of action on Flickr. View the videos on our You Tube page.

Our activists came together to think about how to move foward at the end of March. To read about what happened, download the writeup.

What happens next

The campaign to tackle climate change is far from over. We thought we would get better results from the Copenhagen summit. Scotland is still leading the way on climate change with the Government's 42% target. We have to ensure that they stick with it and we have to continue pushing world leaders for an effective and legally binding agreement in 2010 that will prevent run away climate change.

As it stands, the Copenhagen Accord condemns hundreds of thousands of people to hunger, flooding, draught and famine. Species are severely under threat. The rich world found billions in a short space of time to bail out the banks - now, more than ever, we have to put pressure on them to do the same to protect the future of humanity and nature. 

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