Carbon-info.org, a Hampshire based environment organisation working to raise public awareness on global warming, is launching a new consumer campaign to boycott American products in response to America’s continued refusal to agree mandatory emission cuts.

Promoted under the consumer slogan ‘Let your wallet do the campaigning‘, the climate action encourages shoppers to unite and shy away from American brands until the US President signs up to legally binding CO2 emission targets.

The launch of the campaign coincides with the 10^th anniversary of America’s reluctance to work with the international community on finding ways to reduce CO2 emissions by 80% by 2050 to avoid irreversible climate damage.

During Kyoto negotiations in early 1998 it became clear that the world’s biggest CO2 polluter was unlikely to ratify the international agreement. A decade later, American negotiators at the UN’s climate change summit in Bali in December 2007, made sure that any reference to emission targets was removed from the final conference text.

“America has been a climate bully for ten years,” said Carbon-info.org’s chairman Flemming Bermann. “This needs to change. As consumers, we have real power. Boycotting mainstream US products is an effective way of sending a strong message to the White House.”

The Christian Council for Monetary Justice commented that: “We need an international campaign to restore a co-operative society in which we develop media of trade and exchange that work for everyone and protect the earth.”

The need for an effective solution to climate change is further underlined by the fact that world CO2 levels have increased rapidly from 365 parts per million (PPM) in 1996 to over 380 PPM in 2007.

“It’s a great pity that our ongoing climate predicament has not spawned a universal and powerful agreement among the world’s governments to cooperate with each other,” said Diana Korchien, founder of Flipside Vision.

Carbon-info.org has developed a web-site in support of the campaign, where shoppers can download free campaign posters and a list of US products and services to boycott, send an email to the White House and read a detailed dossier on America’s dismal climate record.