“Don’t nuke the climate”
on www.antiatomszene.info.
We will hand over your signatures in Copenhagen soon. We need to make sure that nuclear energy will be excluded from the Kyoto protocol in future as well.
Thanks for your support!!!
Kind regards
Elvira Pöschko
Chair Antiatom Szene Austria
Let’s act now!
The reduction of greenhouse gas emissions is urgent.
Climate change and its impacts are now undeniable: a higher average temperature, rising sea levels, an increase in the number of storms, droughts and floods, the exodus of climate refugees… Now is the time for effective actions at global level to limit climate change and enable our societies to adapt to its consequences.
Leaders from the whole world will have to reach a new climate agreement during the December 2009 Copenhagen Summit. It is of the utmost importance that this agreement should set ambitious targets for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, backed with necessary means to ensure their
success: our future depends on it!
Nuclear energy will not prevent climate change!
Under the current Kyoto Protocol and its main mechanisms*, nuclear energy is rightly excluded from the possible solutions available to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. At the Copenhagen summit, nuclear power will be at the heart of the negotiations. In collaboration with certain countries, the nuclear industry is pushing for this dangerous and polluting technology to be included in the next climate agreement as a “clean” technology.
This would allow some industrialised countries to avoid reducing part of the emissions produced on their territory, without questioning the way they produce and consume, whilst exporting an expensive, inefficient and risky technology. Such a disingenuous strategy would encourage the global expansion of the nuclear industry, with its associated risks, and would mean losing the fight against climate change.
Join us in challenging the political leaders gathered in Copenhagen: Nuclear energy must not be used as a tool to fight climate change and be given the advantage of large public investments… at the expense of the real solutions!
