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Salty end for Oriental Bay’s climate pirates
20 November 2015
Salty end for Oriental Bay’s climate pirates
A miniature climate summit, held ankle deep in
Oriental Bay’s briny waters, will demonstrate the threat
of inaction on climate change.
Climate change campaigners will be hosting the mini summit in Wellington’s Oriental Bay at 1pm on Monday 23 November.
The summit will, sadly, recede into the sea.
The action will send a message to our representatives and politicians that it is time for real solutions to climate change, before it damages the people who live in New Zealand’s environmentally-exposed capital, our local businesses that rely on our healthy environment, and our neighbours around the country and the world.
Nina Atkinson, spokesperson for the group organising the mini summit, says they hopes to raise awareness of Wellington’s People's’ Climate March, which is happening later in the week, on Saturday 28 November at Civic Square at 1pm.
The march will be part of a series of marches happening around the globe prior to world leaders gathering in Paris for a summit to address climate change.
“We’re calling for solutions, not pollution,” says Atkinson.
“The march will be huge - it will be part of the biggest ever gathering of people from all over the world, families from all walks of life, calling for real solutions to climate change.”
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