This blog by Greenpeace UK exective director John Sauven first appeared on the Guardian's Comment Is Free.
As the science of climate change gets increasingly urgent, the will of Europe's political leaders to act on the climate crisis seems to be weakening by the day.
On Saturday 6th December the National Climate March went from Speaker's Corner (Hyde Park) to Parliament Square in London.
As part of the Global Day of Action there were National Climate Marches across over 70 countries this year. The date was chosen as it is the midway point of a fortnight of climate talks in Poznan.
The march in London had four major themes:
The European Union's failure to agree on effective measures to tackle climate change has been slammed by Friends of the Earth.
We're into the all-important last three days of United Nations climate talks.
It's at this point that government ministers - the people with the power to make decisions about whether their country signs on to a global agreement to tackle climate change - have started to arrive in Poland.
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