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With only three days remaining for our world leaders to sign an ambitious and binding climate treaty at the UN Climate Summit, one that meets the global emissions reduction standards necessary to prevent catastrophic climate change, activists from all over the globe are migrating to Copenhagen to take aggressive stands. Denmark has become this month's Mecca for environmental activists abroad.

On December 8, young activists from SustainUS, the Sierra Student Coalition, the Cascade Climate Network, and more invaded a live webcast of a climate denier conference in Copenhagen planned to coincide with the UN Climate Summit. The host of this conference was Americans for Prosperity, a group greatly funded by David Koch, co-owner of oil and gas empire Koch Industries. The fifty activists posing as audience members stormed the stage only five minutes into the event, holding a banner and chanting, “Real Americans for Prosperity are Americans for Clean Energy."

 

On the second day of negotiations in Copenhagen, African Delegates protested the UN Climate Summit in Denmark in response to a leaked draft agreement that would disadvantage developing countries. "No Bad Deal for Africa," they chanted, unwilling to accept a political deal that would doom their continent to suffer the effects of climate change.

 

 

Starting in Copenhagen's parliament Square, the "The World Wants a Real Deal" march of December 12 attracted 100,000 activists. The participation was well over the expected amount, and the large masses of people owned the streets, bearing bright yellow picket signs and were accompanied by various floats and drum beats.

 

 

Then, on December 14, the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse rode through Parliament Square of Copenhagen. Four riders, dressed and made-up to represent, Famine, Pestilence, War and Death mounted their horses in an effort to warn the world leaders of the devastating effects of climate change. The message was not to predict the world's impending doom, but to remind our leaders that they have the power to prevents these unfortunate effects of global warming.