Greenpeace activists climb the Parliament of London

Middle hundred Greenpeace activists climbed onto the roof of the Palace of Westminster, seat of the British Parliament, where displayed banners calling for "a policy change to save the climate".

Police sources said the activists entered the precincts of Parliament using ropes and ladders with which jumped the fence.

The group's intention, as stated by one member of Greenpeace, is to stay all night on the roof and to require lawmakers, who meet again Monday after the summer recess, to sign a manifesto on climate change.

In a statement, the environmental organization said the protest aims to "raise the temperature" of the debate on what must be done to stop climate change.

"Parliament opens tomorrow and elections looming (the UK goes to the polls in June 2010), so this is a golden opportunity for parties to really think about the future and what they will face the next generations, "said Greenpeace executive director John Sauven.
Little attention in Congress

The NGO said in her statement has caused alarm to the little attention that the Labor Party and the Conservative Party has given the climate change issue during their annual conferences held in the past two weeks.

Although security in the British Parliament rose substantially in 2004, members of Greenpeace managed to climb to the top of Westminster without major obstacles.

In recent years, Greenpeace also got a group of activists scaled the Big Ben, while demonstrators in favor of hunting their way into the House of Commons and threw purple powder at then prime minister Tony Blair.