What can you do to support the campaign?
"We the people of Cornwall and our visitors, pledge to ensure that our families and our communities will survive to freely enjoy the bounty and beauty of Cornwall. At Copenhagen in December 2009 we want the Prime Minister and his Ministers to forge an agreement amongst all nations to keep the increase in temperature of this planet to below 2 degrees celsius."
What are we doing?
On behalf of Cornwall Wildlife Trust our Chairman, Howard Curnow, is taking six Cornish children to Copenhagen to deliver their message of HOPE to the city.
These future generations, as adults, will have the job of cleaning up the mess we, and past generations since the Industrial Revolution, leave behind, yet as children they will have no seat at the Climate Change Conference table, where the politicians of the world will, we fear, continue to ‘fiddle as the planet burns’.
Coming from Truro College, Cape Cornwall school and St. Hilary Primary school the children leave for Copenhagen on Sunday 6th December and return on Sunday 13th December. En route they will be guests of our German wildlife conservation partners, NABU, spending time at their Oldenburg head quarters and meeting with young people from Holland, Germany and Denmark, where together they will practice the delivery of their message of HOPE.
At midday on Thursday 10th December the children will present this message of HOPE outside the Danish Royal Palace and Parliament Buildings. They will be accompanied by a Cornish Pilot Gig which will row through the inner canals of the City, demonstrating the use of ‘green power’.
Cornwall Wildlife Trust is proud to have received massive support for this venture from the schools of Cornwall. Although we are not a campaigning organisation we feel strongly that our work should include these two messages, from the ‘Voice of the Children’ and the use of ‘Green Power’ and that they need to be seen and heard in Copenhagen in December 2009.
Please get as many people as you can to support the campaign, and get your family, friends and colleagues to do likewise by using the Email to a friend link on the left of this page.
Who is supporting the Footsteps Campaign?
This campaign is supported by Cornwall Council, Cornwall Methodist Church, Churches Together in Cornwall, Cornwall Wildlife Trust, CoaST, Green Party, Cornwall Federation of Women's Institutes, Transition Cornwall and Groundswell, Event Cornwall, Cornwall Friends of the Earth, The Labour Party, The Liberal Democrats, The Conservative Party, Mebyon Kernow, Cornwall Area Quakers, The Bishop of Truro, The Eden Project.
