Diana receives Countdown to Copenhagen Christian Aid pledge cards at Toll Gavel Church's weekly coffee morning

1.00.00pm BST (GMT +0100) Sun 24th May 2009

Toll Gavel United Church in Beverley was involved in Christian Aid's Countdown to Copenhagen climate change campaign. December 2009's UN Copenhagen summit will set the agenda for the next stage of the fight against climate change. People were encouraged to sign cards asking world leaders to deliver a fair and effective deal for the poor. These were presented to local Liberal Democrat Euro MP, Diana Wallis, on Saturday at the church's weekly coffee morning.

Diana Wallis, voted the region's greenest MEP by Friends of the Earth, said:

"This is an excellent campaign highlighting as it does the effect climate change has on the world's poorest people. The UN Summit in Copenhagen in December will be key in setting the international framework to combat climate change into the next decade and beyond."

Notes:

Christian Aid's Countdown to Copenhagen climate change campaign:

www.countdowntocopenhagen.org/

(Photo shows the Reverend Ruth Crompton, Christian Aid campaigner John Turner and Diana Wallis MEP)