The editorial is headlined 'Fourteen days to seal history's judgment on this generation', and urges politicians to take decisive action to cut carbon emissions and halt climate change.
Apaprt from a promotion for actor Helen Mirren's wrapping paper, above the masthead, the editorial is the sole piece of copy on The Guardian's front page this morning. It is the only UK newspaper to run the piece on its cover.
The Copenhagen editorial is running largely unchanged in 56 newspapers across 45 countries, including titles published in Chinese, Russian and Arabic. The text has been drafted by a team at The Guardian after more than a month of consultation with editors from 20 of the newspapers involved.
Other leading newspapers to carry the piece are Italy's la Repubblica, the Miami Herald in the US and Germany's Suddeutsche Zeitung. Most papers carrying the piece are also featuring it on their front page.
On The Guardian's comment pages, the main editorial is given over to prime minister Gordon Brown, also hailing the historic significance of the fortnight long conference starting today. By contrast, the Daily Mail is running a story on the conference saying that the event will generate "as much greenhouse gas as an entire African country".
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Newspapers worldwide clear front pages for Copenhagen editorial
LONDON - The Guardian has taken the unusual step of devoting its entire front page to an editorial marking the start of the Copenhagen climate change conference, with the same piece running in newspapers around the world, including Le Monde, El Pais and the Irish Times.
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