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As EU Environment Ministers met on 17 October
to agree the EU's position for the UN climate negotiations 28 November
to 8 December 2005 in Montreal, Canada, Friends of the Earth Europe
has set up, in front of the EU Council building, a 100m long wall
of 2000 painted messages from citizens across Europe, demanding
an ambitious EU agenda for the upcoming global climate talks. The
installation was part of a pan-European campaign that invited citizens
across Europe to paint or write the messages to world leaders on
wooden tiles.
UK minister Elliot Morley meeting Friends
of the Earth Europe to receive a stack of 27 painted messages, one
for each EU-25 Environment Minister as well as the ministers of
Bulgaria and Romania. The painted messages were distributed to the
EU Environment Ministers just before the start of the Council meeting.
(Click on the images for high resolution.)
LEFT: Hungarian Environment Minister Miklos Persannyi has found
the message that he had painted months ago at a festival in Budapest,
participating in an action of FoE Hungary. MIDDLE: Environment Commissioner
Stavros Dimas at the installaton. RIGHT: Luxembourg's Environment
Minister Lucien Lux (2nd from right) and Hungary's Environment Minister
Miklos Persannyi (far left).
The installation: the 100m long wall made out of ca 2000 message
tiles from citizens across Europe, demanding that the EU must take
climate change much more seriously.
The thousands of messages that were used in the installation come
from 30 European countries and have been collected over the past
months. The installation marks the end of the European dimension
of the campaign; now the messages will be sent to Montreal, where
a giant installation will be set up just outside the UN climate
negotiations. Below are a few pictures of some of the street actions
that took place across Europe:
Friends of the Earth Europe campaigns for sustainable and fair societies and for the protection of the environment,
unites more than 30 national organisations with thousands of local groups
and is part of the world's largest grassroots environmental network, Friends of the Earth International.
