Greenpeace will keep up pressure on leaders it says let world down on global warming

Greenpeace will keep up pressure on global warming

JOHANNESBURG — Greenpeace says it will keep pressuring world leaders on global warming.

Greenpeace executive director Kumi Naidoo spoke in an interview in Johannesburg on Thursday on a visit to his home country after attending the U.N. climate change summit in Copenhagen. He left in Copenhagen four Greenpeace activists who will spend Christmas in a Danish jail facing trespassing charges because of a summit protest.

Greenpeace pushed for a binding agreement to reduce global warming and give poor countries money and technology to cope with climate change. The agreement fell far short of that.

Naidoo says a Greenpeace climate change team working for the 18 months before Copenhagen has been replaced with fresh campaigners so momentum won’t be lost.