Dear friends,
Delegates from every country in the world have launched marathon negotiations to decide humanity's response to climate change, culminating in a landmark treaty this December. These negotiations will affect billions of lives -- they are simply too important to leave to bureaucrats and diplomats.
We need to build a public consensus for a strong, fair climate deal, and we’ll need strong allies to help us do that. This weekend, a group of international moral leaders, including Kofi Annan, Desmond Tutu, Mary Robinson, Wangari Maathai and Rajendra Pachauri, are meeting to discuss the ethics of climate justice -- they've asked Avaaz members to send them questions to start this conversation.
These leaders have agreed to consider and discuss at least five of our questions -- follow this link now to propose your own question, or vote for your favourites which other Avaaz members have posted. We've only contacted a small group of active Avaaz members, so please do join in the discussion:
http://cdn.avaaz.org/en/climate_justice_forum/
You'll be able to watch the event, webcast live from South Africa, at the same link on Saturday, 28th February from [Noon GMT] -- or see a video of it thereafter. The principles discussed at this event could help to inform our climate campaigning over the next year, as well as the efforts of Kofi Annan and his fellow leaders.
Citizens around the world need to draw a line in the sand for our leaders before it’s too late -- ensuring that the world's response to climate change is grounded in basic principles which are strong and fair. There’s already a great debate gathering about climate justice: how rights and responsibilities can be fairly shared, whether and how poorer countries must reduce their emissions, what finance and technology the richer countries should provide, and how we can minimise the growing risk of catastrophe and ensure that everyone does their part.
Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa, former Irish President Mary Robinson, Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai, and Rajendra Pachauri (chair of the scientists’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) are globally respected voices and ambassadors for change. By engaging in debate with them, we can start to build a public consensus on the deal we need. Let’s ask our questions now at this link:
http://cdn.avaaz.org/en/climate_justice_forum/
Thanks for being part of the global climate conversation!
With warm regards,
Ben, Ricken, Luis, Iain, Milena, Paul, Veronique, Graziela, Pascal, Paula, Alice, Brett -- and the entire Avaaz team
More information about the forum can be found here:
www.ghf-geneva.org/index.cfm?uNewsID=151
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Our questions for Kofi Annan
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