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ANKARA (AFP) - Activists from the environmental pressure group Greenpeace on Tuesday took to the summit of Turkey's Mount Ararat -- the presumed resting place of Noah's Ark -- to urge G8 action on climate change
The activists climbed the 5,137-metre (16,853 foot) mountain, the highest in Turkey and unfurled a banner which read: "G8: This is the point of no return. Save the climate now".
Andree Bohling, the group's climate and energy campaigner said the Group of Eight industrialized nations must commit themselves to significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions during their June 6-8 summit in Germany.
"We want to see specific and ambitious targets. Anything else is meaningless," Bohling said.
"Bush, Blair, Merkel and other G8 leaders must wake up -- we will not get another chance... Either they act, and act radically, now, or it may be too late for our generation and almost certainly for our offspring," he added.
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