Wake Up to Climate Change Event

At 7am on September 21st, area residents and visitors gathered at Cobourg Beach by Victoria Park in Cobourg for a fun, peaceful, Wake Up to Climate Change event. People held their phones in the air and came together to take a photograph before joining other groups around the globe in sending a flood of phone calls to world leaders urging climate action.

Over 1000 similar events were being held in more than 88 countries to deliver a resounding wake-up call to world leaders before they meet in New York on September 22 for critical climate talks.

Organizers of Cobourg/Port Hope event, Bonnie McCool, Susan King and Judy Smith-Torrie, said that the idea of a global climate wake-up call got going just a few weeks ago, and it has snowballed into a massive mobilization of millions around the world who want leaders to do more to stop runaway climate change.

"Area residents are taking part to help show the huge level of public concern that climate talks move far and fast enough to deliver a deal that will avert climate catastrophe and unleash a new green economy."