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Text by Anja Bencke
Translated by Maria Lillegaard Hansen  

Out in the world, Bengalis are put to flight by man-made climate changes such as droughts and floods. At camp site something more humane are right behind the singing Bengali climate refugees: volunteers from the Green Footsteps campaign collecting signatures from festival goers.  

Climate agreement in Copenhagen

The Bengali climate refugees at Roskilde Festival are not real Bengalis but dressed up Danish volunteers calling themselves The Bengali Refugees team. The choir has itself composed the climate song – and the message about the earth burning beneath us, and that we should not look the other way, is not only performed live but also in the Roskilde Festival Radio.

The purpose of the choir and the climate song, is to draw attention to Green Footsteps’ signature collection where festival goers democratically can help to effect the climate agreement being entered into at the Climate Conference in Copenhagen later this year.  

10.000 for Connie

When you put your signature at one of the campaign’s Go-Cards, you agree that Denmark and other wealthy countries should offer economic and viable help to countries overtaken by poverty, so that they are better prepared to tackle the climate changes. And it should be a help exceeding the current development aid. It is the campaign’s declared goal to get 10.000 signatures. “Right now it seems like a realistic goal.

We had a good start and the festival goers are generally very positive”, says Lars Højholt who works as a volunteer in the campaign. When the collection is finished, the signatures will be delivered to Minister of Climate and Energy Connie Hedegaard, who will pay Roskilde Festival a visit on the last Sunday.

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