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The alarms were ringing at 12:18 pm on Queen St, Cardiff on Monday 21 September sending out a siren call from the people of Wales that the world needs to act on climate change.

Dozens of campaigners along with Oxfam Cymru campaigners, volunteers and staff gathered at a spot in Wales' capital city to add its voice to The Global Wake Up Call - with a clear message that world leaders need to wake up and act on climate change

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It is all focused on the most important meeting of all - the UN summit on climate change summit in Copenhagen in December. This is when world leaders will meet to decide our destiny. Synchronised alarms ringing at 12:18 (local time) signified the date December 18th: the last day of the critical negotiation.

The Global Wake Up Call, which started in New York yesterday, will see thousands of people in cities, towns and villages around the world unite to make a massive noise, sending a loud message - one that leaders cannot ignore.

Stop Climate Chaos Cymru - a coalition made up of environment and development charities, unions, faith, community and women's groups - arranged today's Wake Up Call in Cardiff.

Julian Rosser, Chair of Stop Climate Chaos Cymru, said, "Right now the world is sleepwalking into a disaster. Unless world leaders wake up pretty soon we will all face a living nightmare. We in Wales have sounded the alarm, we've made a massive noise on Queen St, Cardiff to wake up world leaders to the urgency of climate change."

This September sees a series of high level meetings from G20 to UN in Pittsburgh to Bangkok. Campaigners say that they will pave the way and warm up the political will for Copenhagen and call on governments, especially in developed countries, to wake up to their historic responsibility - as the main polluters and the ones with the resources to deal with it.

The Global Wake Up Call urges leaders to agree to the financing so that the Copenhagen meeting in December can agree a global climate action plan. Climate campaigners gathered in Cardiff today say that money needs to be promised to help the poorest countries to adapt to current threats as well as to develop in a low carbon way. The deal must be FAIR - AMBITIOUS - BINDING

Rosser added, "World leaders can't bury their heads any longer and expect the problem drift away. Climate change is here and it's real. There is still time to build a greener, safer world. But the people of Wales have raised the alarm - it's up to world leaders now. If they snooze, the world will lose."