Fw: 24 Hours to Save Bali!

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Avaaz.org - The World in ActionBen Wikler, 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

 

PS here’s the latest news from the summit -- some are proposing to go ahead

without the US, Japan and Canada, where governments may soon change:

AFP latest

Associated Press latest

 

For more about Avaaz’s campaigning and achievements so far, see

http://www.avaaz.org/en/report_back_1

 

The IPS newswire says, " Whereas traditional rhetoric and diplomatic gimmicks

characterise the official UN climate change conference, environment

activists are drawing the focus for their witty and irreverent take... In

the forefront is a community of global citizens named Avaaz. "

 

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

 

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