Kirsty helps solve climate crime (Kirsty Williams AM )

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Kirsty Williams AM <info@kirstywilliams.org.uk>

Kirsty helps solve climate crime

November 24, 2009 12:00 AM

kirsty Kirsty Williams AM for Brecon and Radnorshire played detective when WWF Cymru staged a Climate Crime Scene at the National Assembly in Cardiff Bay.

2009 is the most important year ever for our climate with UN negotiations concluding in Copenhagen next month.

To raise awareness of this critical time for action on climate change in the run-up to Copenhagen, WWF Cymru staged a Climate Crime Scene at the Senedd on November 17.

WWF Cymru staged the outline of a life-sized polar bear cordoned off by police tape to depict the possible sign of things to come - unless we tackle climate change now. WWF invited members of the Welsh Assembly government and visitors and staff to the Senedd to view the crime scene and to sign up to our petition for a strong global deal to be agreed in Copenhagen in December to help secure a safe future for the planet.

Kirsty said:

"The Welsh Liberal Democrats fully support WWF's campaign to call for urgent and decisive action to tackle climate change. As the climate crime scene highlights, if left unchecked climate change will have devastating impacts on our environment, on our wildlife, on our future generations and on our planet as a whole. We are already seeing the horrors of climate change; in the thousands forced to live in caravans after the great floods of 2007; and across the world, with places like Bangladesh being buffeted by cyclones and rising sea levels and we must act now to reverse this trend.

"Copenhagen presents opportunities to make radical changes which we simply cannot afford to miss and in December a strong deal between nations must be secured. I ask the people of Brecon and Radnorshire to sign up to WWF's campaign to show their support and to help safeguard the future of planet."

The Climate Crime Scene photo call formed part of the launch of WWF-Cymru's second Climate Witness Jerry Percy. Jerry is the Chief Executive of the Welsh Federation of Fishermen's Associations and he became a climate witness to highlight the concerns that Welsh fishermen have about how climate change is impacting on marine life, the fishing industry and ultimately our nation.

The Climate Witness is a WWF international programme that documents real life accounts from people across the world who are already experiencing climate change.

Welsh Climate Witness Jerry Percy joins WWF Cymru's first Climate Witness farmer Wyn Evans from Pembrokeshire who became a Climate Witness earlier this year. Wyn's account revealed how climate change is affecting agriculture.

For more information about WWF's Climate Witness programme and how you can get involved please visit www.panda.org/climatewitness.

To find out more on WWF's Global Deal Campaign please visit: http://www.wwf.org.uk/what_we_do/tackling_climate_change/getting_a_global_deal