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June 7, 2011

Global Climate Change Talks Underway in Bonn, Germany 
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More than 3,000 participants from some 180 countries are gathering in
Bonn, Germany, this week for climate talks aimed to lay the foundation
for the upcoming U.N. ministerial-level climate in Durban, South Africa.
The Bonn talks come as the International Energy Agency has released new
figures showing the world's energy-related carbon emissions broke record
highs in 2010. Tove Ryding is heading the Greenpeace delegation at the
talks.

Tove Ryding: "It's easy for politicians to respond after a catastrophe
has happened than to show and be pro-active, to actually prevent the
catastrophes before they happen. And that's the essence of what we need
in those negotiations. We need pro-active politicians who actually take
the opportunities to solve this problem before we end up in a climate
disaster. After all, what we are talking about here is actually millions
of green jobs, it's to transform our societies to energy-systems that
are safe, that are stable and that are based on renewable energy and
energy efficiency."



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