MEDIA ALERT                                                                                                          17 October 2007

Walk Against Warming to target ‘2 degrees between climate control and chaos’

The biggest public rally of the federal election campaign will be on climate change, with organisers expecting hundreds of thousands of Australians to take part in the national Walk Against Warming to put both sides of politics on notice that greater action is needed to avoid disaster.

Walk Against Warming will be launched tomorrow at Martin Place, with organisers the Nature Conservation Council to be joined by the scientific and mining communities, and political lobby group Getup! to announce details of their involvement and add their voices to the call for action.

A giant banner of a thermometer and a target of 2-degrees Celsius will be unveiled at the launch to highlight the need for policy decisions to prevent temperatures rising above this level.

“The evidence from the world’s leading scientists is in and there is 2-degrees between climate control and chaos,” Nature Conservation Council executive director Cate Faehrmann said.

Pre-registrations for the Walk are already showing participation is likely to more than double from 2006 when 40,000 marched in Sydney and 100,000 took part nationally.

Walk Against Warming on November 11 will take place in more than 50 cities and towns across the country, including marginal seats such as Parramatta, Dobell, Page and Eden-Monaro.

To get involved in Walk Against Warming or to find out more about why Australia needs to take action to avert dangerous climate change visit www.walkagainstwarming.org

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