Carbon emissions deal is vital, says new Greenpeace head

Associated Press in Johannesburg
guardian.co.uk, Monday 16 November 2009 18.06 GMT

A former anti-apartheid campaigner who today became the new head of the environmental group Greenpeace promised to keep the pressure up on governments to tackle climate change. Kumi Naidoo, from South Africa, who recently went on a hunger strike to press for solutions to Zimbabwe's political and economic crises, said it was vital that December's Copenhagen climate talks result in a binding treaty to cut carbon emissions. "We either get it right and all of humanity comes out on the other side with a new world," Naidoo said, "or we get it wrong and all the world is going to sink."