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Camp for Climate Action have done it again! Climate campers have taken over Trafalgar Square in central London in yet another demonstration of bold and creative direct action [see press release]. The camp in Trafalgar Square is part of the Cop Out Camp Out action, organised after the Wave demonstration which attracted around 50,000 people. The action comes ahead of the Copenhagen COP15 climate talks taking place next week.

See also: London Indymedia | Protesters take to London Streets | Video of Climate Camp

From the 3rd until the 4th of december the climate caravan, which  travels with international participants from the OMC summit in Geneva to the climate summit on Copenhagen, stopped in Freiburg. After a discussion meeting thursday evening in the "Haus 37" in the Vauban around 100 people took the street with their biycycles to protest for another climate.

Related: Leaders from the Global South protest against WWF International in Geneva

Early on Saturday morning two concerned citizens, Dea Goblirsch and Nick Martin, locked down to a drill rig on Coal River Mountain's Bee Tree mountaintop removal site, effectively stopping blasting. Two others, Grace Williams and Laura Von Dohlen, joined them in direct support, holding a banner with the message "Save Coal River Mountain".

Related: Climate Ground Zero | Coalfield uprising leads to arrests at gov's office | Dr. James Hansen and Daryl Hannah Arrested | Coalfield Uprising Grows, More Sit-ins | Climate Pledge of Resistance | Medically defensible energy policy on climate: phase out coal

Two hundred people blockaded the entrance to the Australian Parliament today calling on Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to secure a strong, legally binding treaty at the upcoming international climate negotiations in Copenhagen. Police arrested 130 people, although it is believed none were charged.

Climate Civil Disobedience action in Canberra | Coal Protestors in court over Brisbane Climate Direct Action | Switch off Hazelwood | Video : Damien Lawson on Civil Disobedience

The latest global assessment of carbon dioxide emissions from human activities shows emissions still rapidly increasing according to a paper published in Nature Geoscience by 31 authors from the Global Carbon Project. This increases the importance for meaningful negotiations on emission reduction targets and a legally binding international climate treaty from Copenhagen to start reducing emissions.

Activists from a Climate Camp in the forests of Indonesia have taken direct action locking down earrthmoving and logging equipment. The site on the Kampar Peninsula of the island of Sumatra is being logged and cleared by Asia Pacific Resources International Holding Ltd (APRIL), one of the largest pulp and paper companies in Indonesia, to make way for tree plantations, grown for pulp and paper. All the activists have been detained by Police.

Related: Climate Defenders Camp established to preserve Indonesian Rainforest Peatlands | Photoset of Direct Action | APRIL watch Blog | Pulpmill watch | REDD Indonesia | Greenpeace Climate Rescue Blog

G20 Finance ministers failed to reach agreement on the financing required for a global agreement to stave off catastrophic climate change, according to WWF Scotland. The Finance Ministers of the G20 countries were meeting in St Andrews, Scotland on 6-7 November.

Dr Richard Dixon, Director of WWF Scotland said: "The G20 Finance Ministers meeting turned out to be a mostly irrelevant sideshow on the way to the talks in Copenhagen in a months' time. Failure to come to agreement here is a major disappointment. Given that these are the people who run the biggest economies in the world it seems unlikely that they will manage to devote any serious time to the issue of climate finance before the start of the Copenhagen meeting."

Indymedia Scotland: 'Nae Tae G20.' | Nae Tae G20 in St Andrews Blog

Todays action; banner drop - roaring delegates? - visiting aliens??? - Original report Indymedia Ireland

At about 5pm this evening as the closing plenary of what can only be seen as a very disapointing climate talks in Barcelona, 2 people got up with a banner and walked toward the front stage shouting "Markets are the problem, not the solution". The banner said "End CO2lonialism". (Video on Youtube)

See Also:  Safeguards Lacking for ending emissions from Deforestation | Canada shamed at Fossil of the Day Awards - Barcelona

Africa abandons Barcelona's pre COP15 climate talks - Anger in the streets at rich nations inaction. Delay is not an option, delay kills
This week (monday 2 - friday 6) the Barcelona International Climate Change Talks are happening, five days of formal negotiations, in the lead up to COP 15. Since Saturday there have been a series of actions in the cities streets as well as at the conference centre to raise awereness, to unite eco movements and to try to force change during this window of opportunity in the conference centre at the far side of Montjuic. But will it be enough to get us out of our AGE OF STUPID? Perhaps not, news has just come through today that African countries have abandoned the talks.

Saturday - Manifestation in Barcelona streets; "The climate is not for sale" (Youtube vid | report)
Sunday - Outdoor film screening in city streets - 11th hour - Age of Stupid - Eco hopes (poster)
Monday - TckTckTck wake up call for climate talks - Youtube - Greenpeace banner drop - Anarchist night greeting
Tuesday - Reuters: Africa boycott U.N. climate talks - Evening Water Lobby group targeted
Wednesday - Main entrance shut down by activists
(Original article: Indymedia Ireland - reposted on Its a Funny Old World) | See also Barcelona IMC for breaking news