In August 2008, with the support of a team of friends, sponsors and supporters from around Australia, Kim Nguyen set off on a bike ride from Brisbane to Copenhagen.

Kim aims to arrive in Copenhagen in time for the next major international climate change meeting in December 2009. Along his journey Kim will collect signatures urging comprehensive, fair, and immediate action on climate change and video pleas for assistance to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the people of Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Europe and from places in between. Kim will present these signatures and videos to the delegates at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.

Updates will be posted here as they arrive, or check Kim's website (see below).

early September

Kim is currently in northern Queensland, heading towards Darwin, a distance of 2,400 kilometres.

Launch (July 31)

The RIDE PLANET EARTH project was launched on Thursday 31st July 2008 at The Excelsior Hotel, 64 Forveaux St Surry Hills, Sydney

The launch included presentations on climate justice, the Video Petition Booth, and performers.

The line-up included; CJ Shaw, Annie M and Ninjas With Attitude, and DJ Tim Mac

For further information call Kim Nguyen on 0420 887 618 or Launch Manager James Mallen on 0450 324 007.

The journey

Departing on 10 August 2008 from Brisbane, Australia Kim will then make his way along the following path:

• Cairns, then across to Darwin.

• From Darwin the ride will change mode of transport briefly, getting a boat or plane to Dili, East Timor, then resume riding to Indonesia, and riding and taking ferries through the Indonesian Islands to Java, then Sumatra, and finally to Malaysia.

• Then overland through Malaysia, Thailand and into Myanmar.

• Then into the Indian subcontinent, from east to west, through Bangladesh, India and into Pakistan.

• The ride will head north west to the border of Iran. Passing through Iran will take the ride into Turkey and Eastern Europe.

• Once in Europe the ride will journey northwards through Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia and into the Czech Republic.

• From there it is a home straight through Germany and into Denmark by December 2009.

Kim hopes to ride an average of 70 kilometres a day for five days, then take a coupe of days off to rest, work on the documentary, promote the project, and record video petitions.

We will be making contact with environmental and community development projects all along the route so that Kim can record what they are doing, interview them about the climate related issues they face and  enlist their participation in the project.

For further details, check here.