Oxfam Scotland Campaigners will leave Glasgow this morning (Wednesday) headed for the UN Climate Talks in Copenhagen.

Sarah Watson, Sara Cowan, Michael Marra and Aideen McLaughlin, who work for Oxfam Scotland based in Glasgow, will travel to the Danish Capital by train and boat to participate in a variety of events to put pressure on world leaders to strike a fair and binding climate deal.

Oxfam Scotland is calling on rich countries meeting in Copenhagen to cut their greenhouse gas emissions by 40 per cent on 1990 levels by 2020. They also want them to pledge $200bn a year to help poor countries adapt to the impacts of climate change and to support them to cut their emissions.

As Scotland has the best climate change legislation in the world, which commits us to cut our emissions by 42 per cent by 2020, Oxfam Scotland is also calling on world leaders to share Scotland's ambition on climate and pledge similar targets.

Sarah Watson, Oxfam Scotland's Climate Change Campaigner, said:

"Over 8,000 people gathered on the streets of Glasgow for The Wave last Saturday to tell world leaders that Scotland wants a fair and binding deal from the climate talks. I am off to Copenhagen to bring that message to the heart of the talks and to encourage world leaders to share Scotland's ambition on climate."

Michael Marra , Oxfam Scotland's Policy and Public Affairs Manager, said:

"Climate change is affecting poor people first and worst, those who are least responsible for the emissions causing climate change and who have the least resources to cope. It's taking their crops, water, homes and jobs, things already in short supply in poor countries.

World leaders meeting in Copenhagen must show political will to strike a fair and binding deal that has the needs of poor people at its heart. Delay costs lives. They can't delay any longer."