PEOPLE worried about climate change expressed their hopes and fears for the world’s future in Worcester. Sportsmen and politicians also said what they wanted to see done to tackle climate change.
Meanwhile, youngsters who passed through CrownGate Shopping Centre’s Bell Square saw balloons transformed into animals and other shapes to highlight green issues.
Worcester Volunteer Centre’s Katie Haywood, aged 17, organised the Hands Up campaign which enabled people to display their written messages about climate change on paper hands.
She said: “We have got messages from the MP Mike Foster, Worcester Warriors, and to go with them we’ve got two-year-olds and parents who are concerned for their children and future generations.”
Miss Haywood said the hands would be taken to Copenhagen, Denmark, where the world’s leaders will meet to discuss a new climate change treaty in December, in a bid to show Worcester cares about the planet.
Laura Spiers, of Pershore, represented 350.org and helped to make balloons.
She said thousands of events took place across the world on Saturday – the international day of climate action.
She said the number 350 was used because 350 parts per million is what leading scientists say is the safe upper limit for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
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