Plaid Cymru AM Leanne Wood gave a message to Dai the Blue Welsh Dragon to show her commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions in Wales by 40% (from 1990 levels) by 2020.
Stop Climate Chaos (SCC) Cymru held a Blue Dragon event at the Senedd in Cardiff Bay to support a global climate deal that will aim to keep global warming under two degrees celsius.
Dai is the Welsh Climate Dragon, turning blue alongside the thousands of climate activists, who have adopted the colour in the run-up to the international climate talks in Copenhagen next month.
Dai the Welsh Blue Dragon started his journey in Rhayader, Powys, where he was created by Russell Kirk and volunteers from the CARAD Community Group.
His first stop was at the Senedd in Cardiff where among those he met was Leanne Wood, Plaid’s Sustainability spokesperson, Cerith Jones, one of the Welsh Assembly’s Climate Change Champions and 30 Year-Two pupils from Mount Stuart Primary School in Cardiff Bay.
Dai will take the Welsh calls for a fair, ambitious and binding (FAB) climate deal to marches in London and Copenhagen next month.
Leanne Wood AM said: “Climate change is a global threat and will affect us all. The Welsh Assembly Government has agreed to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40% by 2020, and we hope this will go some way in securing a greener future for generations of children.”
The SCC coalition believes that rich countries should take the lead by committing to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and warmly welcomes last week’s all-party agreement by the National Assembly that Wales will seek to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 40% (from 1990 levels) by 2020. This decision puts Wales at the forefront of the international debate around keeping a global temperature rise below 2C.
The Blue Dragon, along with hundreds of people from across Wales, will go on to The Wave event in Grosvenor Square, London at noon on Saturday 5 December, where the UK’s biggest ever demonstration in support of action on climate change will take place, bringing together tens of thousands of people ahead of the crucial UN inter-governmental climate summit in Copenhagen.
From London, the Blue Dragon will travel to Copenhagen for the Climate Change talks, alongside Jane Davidson and Cerith Jones who are attending the Copenhagen conference.
