Aerial photograph led by 350 ambassador Bianca Jagger marks global day of climate action to spread most important number in the world on Saturday 24 October, Jubilee Gardens, London’s South Bank.

One of over 3,000 Simultaneous Events in Over 160 Countries

Photocall

When: 14h00 – 15h30, Saturday 24 October 2009

Gordon Brown is right to acknowledge the vital importance of reaching a global deal on climate change, Friends of the Earth said today.

173 million people across the world, including 220, 565 in the UK, took part in lobbies, demonstrations, petitions, public meetings and special faith services from 16-18 October to deliver a message to politicians that action must be taken to tackle Global Poverty and Climate Change.

In a manifesto launched today, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has pledged UK leadership in tackling climate change during the run-up to the UN climate summit in Copenhagen this December. Alongside the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Ed Miliband, he has outlined his vision for a new deal where the emissions of developed nations will peak by 2020 (we believe the deal should be no later than 2015) and decline thereafter.

It's been a long time since there were polar bears at London Zoo, but the famous attraction still houses many other species which are threatened by the effects of climate change. So I can't help but wonder whether this fact registered with Gordon Brown (himself an endangered species) as he stood up at the zoo to present his blueprint for a global climate
action plan.