I am writing Velodonnas to ask if anyone would be interested in participating in a bike relay this August from Regina to Winnipeg in support of the Kyotoplus Climate Change Campaign.
THe Kyotoplus web site can be found here: www.kyotoplus.ca
This is an invitation to Veladonnas to participate in the KYOTOplus initiative for federal government inaction on climate change this year.
KYOTOplus is a petition-centred campaign spearheaded by several prominent civil society organizations including the David Suzuki Foundation, Greenpeace Canada, Oxfam Canada, Sierra Club Canada, as well as the two main networks working on climate change issues in Canada - Climate Action Network Canada (60 groups) and the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition (11 groups).
It uses the Climate Action Now! Petition and the Pledge for Canadian Politicians (both attached) to build broad public support on two decisions facing the federal government in 2009. The first is whether Canada improves and strengthens its national plan to reduce its total greenhouse gas emissions prior to 2020. This is the period identified by United Nations scientists as the critical window of opportunity for stopping and reversing emissions growth, and preventing climate change disaster scenarios. The second is whether Canada will go along with other countries in signing a robust, science-based global climate change agreement covering the next phase of the Kyoto Protocol. This agreement is being negotiated now and will be tabled for signatures this December at a landmark United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. (www.en.cop15.dk).
These two actions are essential if Canada intends to take economic advantage of the worldwide shift toward known solutions and do its fair share to help lower global levels of greenhouse gas pollution.
Hope to hear from you soon!
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