Hundreds of climate change campaigners yesterday spelt out a giant "2030" in Hyde Park - the date by which they want a 'Zero Carbon Britain'.

The stunt kicked off the latest Campaign Against Climate Change demonstration, which was part of a Global Day of Action on climate change taking place midway through the UN Climate Talks in Cancún, Mexico.

One report detailed Caroline Lucas MP saying that she was "actually kind of bored of public meetings, of speeches, of debates (pointing out that only 12 MPs attended the debate in the House of Commons about Climate Change and the Cancún summit) and even (gasp!) of climate marches. She pointed out that time was short - we have, by most estimates, between 5 and 8 years before we have damaged our world to such an extent that catastrophic climate change is unstoppable."

Last year we saw 50,000 march through the streets of London ahead of the Cop15 conference, we saw the direct actions, demos and repression in Copenhagen, and we saw Cop15 fail. This year following the Cop15 overdose the media seems little interested in covering climate change issues and some have indeed said it's simply not a priority, whilst others repeatedly run with the 'climate change isn't happening' angle.

At a time of increasing government imposed cuts following the (ongoing) banking crisis, many politicians, campaigners and people are not focusing on environmental or climate change issues. But the truth is that all these crises have their roots in the same market based capitalism, overseen by our governments.

We desperatly need to find the links between our campaigns. The sooner we can articulate this the better.

London Pics:
http://min.us/mvkI0IQ
http://markcnewton.com/2010/12/04/climate-march-photos/
http://www.demotix.com/news/527318/national-climate-march-2010-london
http://www.demotix.com/news/526989/national-climate-march-london
http://davenash.photoshelter.com/gallery/Climate-March-2010/G00002G_j.DF5fdA/

London Demo Demands:
- A Zero Carbon Britain by 2030
- One Million Climate Jobs Now!
- Ten percent cuts in one year
- Real Cuts not offsets
- Green Energy Revolution
- Moratorium on Agrofuel use
- End Domestic Flights
- Expand Public Transport
- 55 mph speed limit

International demo call:
"We demand that world leaders take the urgent and resolute action that is needed to prevent the catastrophic destabilisation of global climate, so that the entire world can move as rapidly as possible to a stronger emissions reductions treaty which is both equitable and effective in minimising dangerous climate change.

We demand that the long-industrialised countries that have emitted most greenhouse gases currently in the atmosphere take responsibility for climate change mitigation by immediately reducing their own emissions as well as investing in a clean energy revolution in the developing world. Developed countries must take their fair share of the responsibility to pay for the adaptive measures that have to be taken, especially by low-emitting countries with limited economic resources.

Climate change will hit the poorest first and hardest. All who have the economic means to act, must therefore urgently and decisively do so."