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For immediate release:
13 December 2009
MP3 of press conference with Desmond Tutu in Copenhagen
An MP3 audio file (approx. length: 39 minutes; size: 35.5 MB) of the press conference given at the UN climate summit in Copenhagen by Archbishop (emeritus) Desmond Tutu and others on Sunday, 13 December is available for downloading. Another MP3 file features Tutu’s and De Boer’s speeches at the remittance of half a million signatures for climate justice.
Press conference
Subject:
Beyond politics and business - Climate change from a religious and ethical perspective. Christian leaders urge world leaders to agree on a fair, effective and binding climate deal that put the needs of the poor first.
http://bit.ly/DesmondTutuPressConfCOP15
Speakers:
Rev.
Samuel Kobia
(moderator)
General secretary, World Council of Churches, Switzerland
Archbishop (emeritus)
Desmond Tutu
Nobel Peace Prize laureate 1984 and anti-apartheid champion
Bishop
Sofie Petersen
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark, Greenland
Rev.
Tofiga Falani
President, Congregational Christian Church of Tuvalu, Tuvalu
Archbishop Desmond Tutu hands over to UN climate chief Yvo de Boer over half a million signatures for climate justice
An MP3 file with the audio (approx. length: 16 minutes; size: 15 MB) of Tutu’s and De Boer’s speeches is available for downloading.
http://bit.ly/DesmondTutuAndYvoDeBoerCOP15
High resolution photos
Free of charge high resolution pictures (please credit: Peter Williams/WCC) will shortly be available for downloading at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oikoumene/sets
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Additional information:
Juan Michel,+41 22 791 6153 +41 79 507 6363
media@wcc-coe.org
The World Council of Churches promotes Christian unity in faith, witness and service for a just and peaceful world. An ecumenical fellowship of churches founded in 1948, today the WCC brings together 349 Protestant, Orthodox, Anglican and other churches representing more than 560 million Christians in over 110 countries, and works cooperatively with the Roman Catholic Church. The WCC general secretary is Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, from the [Lutheran] Church of Norway. Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland.
