WWF/ Adena, Intermón Oxfam, the Organization of Consumers and Users (OCU) and Comisiones Obreras have presented “Climate Movement”. This coalition, unprecedented in our country, invites all organisations, institutions and citizens who wish to combat climate change in a real and active way, adopting concrete measures to reduce CO2 emissions and, therefore, global warming, to join it from today. It should be remembered that the average temperature of the Earth has increased by 0.7 ºC in the last century (double, to 1.5 ºC, in Spain), and that in areas of the planet vital for the balance of ecosystems, such as Antarctica, the problem is more serious, as the temperature has increased by 2.5 ºC in the last 50 years.

The Climate Movement is a call to action (its motto is: “In the face of climate change, you can’t stay cold”) and to a personal and institutional commitment to use energy more rationally. For this reason, it asks people and organizations to subscribe to one or more of the energy saving options proposed on its website, www.movimientoclima.org. Several public figures have already joined Movimiento Clima, with the aim of showing the population that climate change is a problem that affects us all, that we are all responsible but we can also be architects of solutions. The launch of this initiative has been possible thanks to a grant from the Ministry of the Environment.

The founding organizations of “Climate Movement” have drawn up a manifesto that can be read and signed on the www.movimientoclima.org website. The list of affiliations to it will be delivered to the Minister of the Environment, Cristina Narbona, during COP12 (United Nations Conference on Climate Change, to be held in Nairobi from November 6 to 17). Among other points, this manifesto calls on the governments of industrialised countries to make more stringent emission reduction commitments, of 30% by 2020 compared to 1990