By Carol Somplatsky-Jarman, Sunday, December 13
Photos by the World Council of Churches Media Services
We started the day outside Copenhagen Rathouse at the Hopenhagen Live (the events to include all local people in the COP 15 program). Thousands gathered to see Archbishop Desmond Tutu receive Countdown to Copenhagen petitions and watch local bands.*
Bishop Tutu dancing with Outlandish at the rally.
Climate change effects are being felt most "by those who did not cause it, the poor and the vulnerable", Tutu said, speaking before a crowd at Copenhagen's City Hall Square. This is the "injustice of climate change," that poor countries are the ones "that have to pay for something they didn’t cause."
Archbishop Desmond Tutu addresses rally when presenting over 500,000 signatures for the Countdown to Copenhagen pledge.
We then walked to The Copenhagen Lutheran Cathedral, The Church of Our Lady, where the Ecumenical Celebration for Creation took place (See the order of worship). We all joined Danes in standing for the Queen’s arrival, and listened to music before the ceremony began.
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