From Rio to Kettering: ready to save the planet?
Updated on 01 December 2009
Channel 4 News brings four citizens of Kettering together with four from Rio to argue who should be doing what for whom to battle the spiralling effects of our warming world.
President Lula has told Channel 4 News the Copenhagen climate summit will be a moment of truth for the world.
Many other world leaders agree that people may soon have to make painful choices for the sake of the climate.
But have they adequately prepared their populations?
With many still unconvinced about the need to tackle global warming, do people around the world really have the will to make sacrifices?
Channel 4 News brings citizens from Kettering, which the United Nations says is the most representative town in the UK in which to test attitudes to climate change, together with Rio's counterparts 6,000 miles away to see what people from opposite sides of the world think all of us should do about global warming.
Our panel from Kettering and Rio:
Kettering
Rebecca Richards, student
Karen Young, school governor
Ray Maylin, retired factory supervisor
Pat Curran, fork lift truck engineer
Rio de Janeiro
Natan Oliveira Ferreira, student
Márcia Garcia, English teacher
Felipe Barbosa Gomes, student
Ireide Walker, farmer
