The Secretariat sent to G20 an appeal signed by the Co-President of the Summit Walter Veltroni

The Secretariat of the Nobel Peace Laureates’ Summits has today sent to all the Heads of State involved in the Copenhagen Summit a letter/appeal to urge them – in their roles as the leaders of the nations and governments of our planet – to make as soon as possible a new commitment towards taking on and radically resolving the problem of climate change, as has been widely requested, by taking those concrete decisions that the whole world expects of them.

Enclosed with the letter – signed by Co-President Walter Veltroni, together with Mikhail Gorbachev, of the Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates – is the final resolution drafted during the 10^th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, which was held in Berlin during the commemoration of the 20^th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and which focused on the issue of climate change.

In their final resolution, the Nobel Peace Laureates state: “A successful resolution of our climate and sustainability dilemma requires transformational change, not incrementalism. It means the almost complete decarbonisation of the global economy by 2050, a peaking of global emissions by 2015 and a reduction of the carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere. This is a far greater task than is acknowledged politically, but it is achievable given the will and statesmanship which humanity has demonstrated in previous emergencies”.

This declaration is intended as a useful memorandum for the general discussion and at the same time as an appeal for responses to the urgent questions that we face.

The letter concludes: “The World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, which every year brings together numerous Nobel Peace Laureates and illustrious personalities who have contributed to changing the destiny of our countries and peoples, has produced – and wants to act as the promoter of – a strong political initiative to encourage every possible action with a view to reaching, during the Copenhagen Summit, a binding global agreement to avoid catastrophic, irreversible damage to our planet on a global scale”.

Please find enclosed the letter sent to the world leaders and the final declaration of the Nobel Peace Laureates drafted during the 10^th World Summit in Berlin 2009.

>> Cover Letter

>> Summit’s Final Statement

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As well as organizing the tasks of the Summit, the Secretariat monitors the activities of Nobel Peace Laureates, while promoting the adoption of the "Charter for a world without violence" and supporting the work of the Nobel, who participate in the annual Summits at Rome, as mediators in various conflicts around the world (Article 3 of the Statute).