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On the final day of the Bali Climate Change Summit, the world faced down an effort by the US, Canada and Japan to wreck the negotiations. Over 600,000 Avaaz members mobilized to save the Bali talks, including 320,000 in the final 72 hours!
Avaaz members helped tip the balance in may ways, including: • Holding or attending local rallies in over 100 nations, as well as outside the conference in Bali, • Bringing the voice of 2.6 million people directly into Bali through the largest joint climate petition delivery ever, • Launching massive and successful rapid response campaigns to pressure the American, Canadian and Japanese governments, culminating in multi-national newspaper ads shaming these countries for seeking to wreck the talks. Now the dust settled, we have a roadmap to achieve an international climate treaty to replace Kyoto by 2009 and, an $80 billion annual fund to help poorer countries adapt to climate change. But, the key issue was getting developed countries to sign up to concrete emissions reductions targets--the Europeans’ 25-40% target ended up as little more than reference to “deep cuts” in the future. Bali has shown us that people power works, but it has also strengthened our resolve. By 2009 we need much more than references to deep cuts, we need aggressive binding targets. Bali keeps the door open to the big changes scientists tell us we need, and keeps the pressure on all of us to make it happen. Click here to read the full Bali report |
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