He added: “The pilgrimage is a huge 255 miles in two stages. Training went well until I came off my bike and ended up in A&E. Thankfully, I recovered well and cycled the first phase from Westminster Cathedral to Newhaven in August. The second leg is still going ahead, starting Wednesday 25th November from Dieppe to Paris, but each day we have to cycle further than on the English side. I've never cycled 50 miles a day before and we have to do that for three days in a row. But my aches and pains will be as nothing if we get the urgent action on climate change we need from our government and other world leaders."
The head of the UN's weather agency has just warned that next year concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere will pass a dangerous milestone. Scientists say the "safe" level of CO2 to avoid dangerous global warming is 350ppm but without significant action the global annual average is likely to pass the 400ppm milestone in 2016.
“So we urgently need action in December. We will be at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, along with people from all over the world, to put pressure on world leaders to reach the agreement we need to tackle climate change for the love of our sisters and brothers and our common home.”
For more information and to register for the 29th November climate change march in London, see:
http://fortheloveof.org.uk/peoples-climate-march/?
Other marches will be taking place on the same day around the world, although it looks as if the march in Paris will not now go ahead because of the security risk.