|PIC1|Images of Christian Aid supporters, including actress Greta Scacchi, calling on the international community to agree a fair climate deal at Copenhagen were beamed onto the Palace of Westminster.

There were also messages urging Prime Minister Gordon Brown and US President Barack Obama to lead the fight for climate justice at the summit.

Christian Aid’s Mass Visual Trespass campaign enables climate justice campaigners to demonstrate without leaving home. Members of the public have shown their support by uploading photographs of themselves, and their climate messages, onto the Christian Aid website. www.christianaid.org.uk/trespass

Their images are then beamed onto buildings as a ‘visual trespass’. The first such event was held at the E.ON power plant in Ironbridge, East Shropshire in August. More are planned around the country in the run up to the Copenhagen talks.

Christian Aid’s head of campaigns Paul Brannen said after the trespass: "We chose Parliament as we want politicians to understand the very real nature of the crisis that is developing, and act accordingly.

"It is rich industrialised countries like the UK that are historically responsible for causing climate change. They must now demonstrate a new kind of leadership in dealing with the consequences."

He said that climate change was having a devastating effect on people in developing countries and warned that the floods in the Philippines and drought in Kenya and the Horn of Africa were the latest examples of vulnerable communities "bearing the brunt" of unpredictable weather patters.

"For these people, climate change is now a matter of life or death," he said. "It’s time for a new revolution, a climate revolution. It’s vital that a fair and just climate deal is agreed in Copenhagen to come into force when the first phase of the Kyoto Protocol ends in 2012."