Eleanor Burnham AM helps solve climate crime

6.18.00pm GMT Fri 27th Nov 2009

Eleanor signs the WWF petition calling for a strong global deal to be agreed in Copenhagen in December to help secure a safe future for the planet.

Eleanor Burnham, Welsh Liberal Democrat Assembly Member for North Wales played detective when WWF Cymru staged a Climate Crime Scene at the National Assembly in Cardiff Bay.

2009 is the most important year ever for our climate with UN negotiations concluding in Copenhagen next month. To raise awareness of this critical time for action on climate change in the run-up to Copenhagen, WWF Cymru staged a Climate Crime Scene at the Senedd.

WWF Cymru staged the outline of a life-sized polar bear cordoned off by police tape to depict the possible sign of things to come - unless we tackle climate change now. WWF invited members of the Welsh Assembly government and visitors and staff to the Senedd to view the crime scene and to sign up to our petition for a strong global deal to be agreed in Copenhagen in December to help secure a safe future for the planet.

Eleanor Burnham said :

"With this innovative photo call, WWF Cymru has demonstrated what the future holds unless climate change is tackled now. Climate change left unchecked will have devastating impacts for people and wildlife across the planet. 2009 is the most important year for Climate Change - we simply must secure a strong deal between nations in Copenhagen in December to seriously tackle this problem. I ask people in North Wales to sign up to WWF's campaign to show their support and help safeguard our planet."