Greenpeace calls for Obama action on deforestation
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Dozens of Greenpeace activists from around the globe on Thursday chained themselves to escalators in a logged peatland forest in Riau province of Indonesia, demanding the United States to take more actions to end deforestation, Greenpeace said in a statement in Jakarta.
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Forest protection is one of the fastest ways to save the climate.[Greenpeace] |
An activist from the United States also called President Obama for the action and asked his promise on it.
"Greenpeace is sending President Obama an urgent call to action from the frontline of climate and forest destruction. He has promised to take decisive action on climate change, yet with just weeks left before December's critical U.N. climate summit, his administration is actively undermining and stalling global climate change negotiations," said Rolf Skar, Greenpeace's U.S. Forest Campaigner.
"It is vital that Obama and other world leaders attend the U.N. climate summit and agree to an ambitious, fair and effective deal that includes ending the destruction of the world's rainforests." Said Skar.
The Greenpeace action ended by arrests by the police, the group campaigner Hikmat Soeriatanuwijaya said.
"Around 5 p.m. in the afternoon, all of them were brought by the police to police station at Palalawan," he told Xinhua over phone.
Greenpeace estimates that ending global deforestation requires industrialized countries to invest over 42 billion U.S. dollars annually in forest protection.
Small hoped of reaching a final agreement on the Copenhagen climate talk in December due to differences among the developed and developing countries.
