For the world
Dec. 14th, 2007 09:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zcat_abroadI just recieved this email from Bali this morning. I have, I'm afraid, spammed my entire address book with it, but thought that there were more people out on LJ who might also sign. Basically, we have 24 hours to try and collect 200,000 signatures, in an attempt to get Japan, Canada and the US to join the rest of the world, and not derail environmental plans which may allow us to keep the planet.
Dear friends,
CRISIS IN BALI CLIMATE TALKS - get heard by negotiators, click below to:
Sign the Global
Emergency Petition
24 hours to go, and crisis at the Bali climate talks. In the last day alone, over 150,000 of us have surged to the global rescue -- calling on the world not to give in to wrecking tactics by the governments of the US, Canada and Japan. We’re putting a full-page ad in the Jakarta Post’s summit edition where all the negotiators will see it, warning them to avert Titanic-like disaster -- and we’re coming together with other NGOs to deliver millions of signatures for climate action to governments.
I’m writing from the main hall at Bali, where Al Gore just said it’s time for “a global people power movement” to step in. He’s right. Our new global emergency petition brings us directly into the main battle at Bali -- and there’s no question that delegates here are watching what we all do. So please -- drop everything for thirty seconds, click below to see the ad and sign the petition if you haven’t already, forward this link to everyone you know:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/bali_emergency/24.php
If the world can muster well over 200,000 crisis signatures in the last 24 hours for our actions tomorrow, we can show negotiators how urgently we care about setting a course for decisive climate action.
Last week, things in Bali looked good: near-consensus on a delicate framework of 2020 targets for rich countries, in return for which China and the developing world would do their part over time. IPCC scientists have said such targets are needed to prevent catastrophe. But Japan, the US and Canada are banding together to wreck the deal. The rest of the world is starting to waver, so we must do all we can – just click this link to sign the petition, then forward this message to all your friends and family:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/bali_emergency/24.php
As US citizens tell the summit to ignore the Bush administration, our Canadian members are running a wildfire campaign against their government’s obstruction, including nationwide ads. Meanwhile, we’re bringing petitions from Greenpeace, Oxfam, LiveEarth, Stop Climate Chaos, Friends of the Earth, Al Gore, GetUp, MoveOn and Alliance for Climate Protection together with our own massive campaign to deliver a roar more than 2 million-strong to global decision-makers here.
It’s our world. We won’t let them wreck it.
With hope and determination,
Ben, Graziela, Ricken, Galit, Paul, Milena, Pascal and the whole Avaaz team
To read more about obstructionism by the US, Japan and Canada, check out the daily Fossil Awards – our "truth squad" (New York Times) voted on by more than 430 NGOs in the Climate Action Network, and hosted by Avaaz: www.avaaz.org/fossils
But don't forget to sign the global emergency petition and spread the word today!
http://www.avaaz.org/en/bali_emergency/24.php
-----------------------
ABOUT AVAAZ
Avaaz.org is an independent, not-for-profit global campaigning organization that works to ensure that the views and values of the world's people inform global decision-making. (Avaaz means "voice" in many languages.) Avaaz receives no money from governments or corporations, and is staffed by a global team based in London, New York, Paris, Washington DC, Geneva, and Rio de Janeiro.
If you have technical problems, please go to http://www.avaaz.org.
Dear friends,
CRISIS IN BALI CLIMATE TALKS - get heard by negotiators, click below to:
Sign the Global
Emergency Petition
24 hours to go, and crisis at the Bali climate talks. In the last day alone, over 150,000 of us have surged to the global rescue -- calling on the world not to give in to wrecking tactics by the governments of the US, Canada and Japan. We’re putting a full-page ad in the Jakarta Post’s summit edition where all the negotiators will see it, warning them to avert Titanic-like disaster -- and we’re coming together with other NGOs to deliver millions of signatures for climate action to governments.
I’m writing from the main hall at Bali, where Al Gore just said it’s time for “a global people power movement” to step in. He’s right. Our new global emergency petition brings us directly into the main battle at Bali -- and there’s no question that delegates here are watching what we all do. So please -- drop everything for thirty seconds, click below to see the ad and sign the petition if you haven’t already, forward this link to everyone you know:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/bali_emergency/24.php
If the world can muster well over 200,000 crisis signatures in the last 24 hours for our actions tomorrow, we can show negotiators how urgently we care about setting a course for decisive climate action.
Last week, things in Bali looked good: near-consensus on a delicate framework of 2020 targets for rich countries, in return for which China and the developing world would do their part over time. IPCC scientists have said such targets are needed to prevent catastrophe. But Japan, the US and Canada are banding together to wreck the deal. The rest of the world is starting to waver, so we must do all we can – just click this link to sign the petition, then forward this message to all your friends and family:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/bali_emergency/24.php
As US citizens tell the summit to ignore the Bush administration, our Canadian members are running a wildfire campaign against their government’s obstruction, including nationwide ads. Meanwhile, we’re bringing petitions from Greenpeace, Oxfam, LiveEarth, Stop Climate Chaos, Friends of the Earth, Al Gore, GetUp, MoveOn and Alliance for Climate Protection together with our own massive campaign to deliver a roar more than 2 million-strong to global decision-makers here.
It’s our world. We won’t let them wreck it.
With hope and determination,
Ben, Graziela, Ricken, Galit, Paul, Milena, Pascal and the whole Avaaz team
To read more about obstructionism by the US, Japan and Canada, check out the daily Fossil Awards – our "truth squad" (New York Times) voted on by more than 430 NGOs in the Climate Action Network, and hosted by Avaaz: www.avaaz.org/fossils
But don't forget to sign the global emergency petition and spread the word today!
http://www.avaaz.org/en/bali_emergency/24.php
-----------------------
ABOUT AVAAZ
Avaaz.org is an independent, not-for-profit global campaigning organization that works to ensure that the views and values of the world's people inform global decision-making. (Avaaz means "voice" in many languages.) Avaaz receives no money from governments or corporations, and is staffed by a global team based in London, New York, Paris, Washington DC, Geneva, and Rio de Janeiro.
If you have technical problems, please go to http://www.avaaz.org.