Around a thousand young people in Poznan, west Poland, staged on Saturday a "Climate Now" march in connection with the ongoing UN climate conference in the city.
The marchers demanded a halt to carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and called the Poznan conference "a meeting of hypocrites." Police recorded no incidents during the peaceful march.
"(In) This way we want to put pressure on politicians to reach concrete agreements as soon as possible," Kazimierz Durajczyk from Poznan's Greenpeace branch told Polish news agency PAP.
NGOs attending the conference appealed for the prompt startup of a 30-billion-US-dollar Adaptation Fund to aid CO2 reductions in developing economies.
The Fund, founded under the Clean Development Mechanism, has not yet been activated for organizational reasons.
John Christensen from the UN appealed for CO2 reductions in the construction industry. Christensen warned that greenhouse emissions from construction could rise from 8.6 billion tons in 2004 to 15.6 billion in 2030.
The UN Environment Program (UNEP) also presented a special map showing the most bio-diverse and CO2-burdened areas, according to UNEP's Barney Dickson.
The 14th UN Climate Summit opened in Poznan on Monday and will close on Dec. 12.
Source: Xinhua
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