<div><p>Greenpeace activists breached EU security Thursday to tell European leaders to "wake up" and help save the planet from the increasing threat of global warming.</p><p>"Greenpeace calls on European heads of state to help secure the strongest possible agreement on climate change in Copenhagen," where UN talks are ongoing, one protester read from a statement, before being removed by security officers.</p><p>Around a dozen supporters of the environmental group were involved in the action which surprised several European leaders and officials waiting to enter a two-day summit and finding their access held up by Greenpeace cars and a van.</p><p>The protesters, apparently wearing fake access badges, unfurled banners reading "EU Save Copenhagen," during their brief intervention under the eyes of the world's press and some bemused security guards.</p><p>In a statement sent to media, Greenpeace called on the EU to unilaterally boost its pledge from emission reductions from 20 percent to 30 percent.</p><p>The 27 assembled heads of state and government were mulling such a move, but most European nations are unwilling to make the step without similar pledge from the rest of the industrialised world.</p><p>"An increase in Europe?s ambition would inject momentum into the climate talks and could trigger real change in the US position... A step forward by the EU might well tip the balance and lead to a legally binding deal in time for Christmas," Greenpeace EU climate policy director, Joris den Blanken, said in the statement.</p><p>It was not the first time Greenpeace activists had interrupted a meeting at the EU council headquarters in Brussels.</p><p>In December 2007, the group erected a wall completely blocking the main entrance to the building and delaying a ministerial meeting on fishing quotas.</p><img src="http://admatch-syndication.mochila.com/images/ad.gif?aid=65231302&bid=informcom" /></div><div id="copyright"><div>

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