Right now global leaders are deciding on the planet’s future. We need to make sure that New Zealand is doing its fair share to avert the worst climate impacts for the world’s most vulnerable countries and poorest people. This is not the time to ignore their voices. This is crunch time for the planet.
Email John and tell him to step up to the mark – New Zealanders want him to support a fair, ambitious and legally binding treaty.
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Dear Prime Minister
I am pleased that you are taking an active part in one of the most crucial meetings of our time. New Zealand must be serious about taking action to avoid catastrophic climate change and protecting the future of our Pacific neighbours. I urge you not to block, but to support a treaty that is fair to developing countries, ambitious enough to tackle the problem and legally binding. Along with other rich countries, New Zealand must not try to re-negotiate the mandate for the past two years of negotiations at the last minute in a way that is deeply unfair to developing countries.
Avoiding catastrophic climate change is not possible unless all big emitters commit to ambitious action, however, industrialised countries must take the lead. Emerging economies will quickly follow and are in fact already taking action to reduce their own emissions. New Zealand needs to commit to a more ambitious greenhouse gas reduction target of at least 40 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020, and to make these reductions at home rather than paying poor countries to do our fair share.
It is the responsibility of rich countries, which have caused the climate crisis, to financially support poor countries, which are least to blame but suffering first and worst from the effects. New Zealand’s pledge at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting last month to the Fast Start fund is a very modest first step. However, it is completely inadequate in dealing with the need. New Zealand must commit to long-term climate financing for poor countries. They need stronger sea walls, they need cyclone-proof shelters, they need drought-resistant crops and they need them now.
This is not the time to ignore the voices of the most vulnerable countries. It is not a matter of aid – it is a matter of fulfilling our responsibility.
Yours in hope,
<Your name will be added here>
I am pleased that you are taking an active part in one of the most crucial meetings of our time. New Zealand must be serious about taking action to avoid catastrophic climate change and protecting the future of our Pacific neighbours. I urge you not to block, but to support a treaty that is fair to developing countries, ambitious enough to tackle the problem and legally binding. Along with other rich countries, New Zealand must not try to re-negotiate the mandate for the past two years of negotiations at the last minute in a way that is deeply unfair to developing countries.
Avoiding catastrophic climate change is not possible unless all big emitters commit to ambitious action, however, industrialised countries must take the lead. Emerging economies will quickly follow and are in fact already taking action to reduce their own emissions. New Zealand needs to commit to a more ambitious greenhouse gas reduction target of at least 40 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020, and to make these reductions at home rather than paying poor countries to do our fair share.
It is the responsibility of rich countries, which have caused the climate crisis, to financially support poor countries, which are least to blame but suffering first and worst from the effects. New Zealand’s pledge at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting last month to the Fast Start fund is a very modest first step. However, it is completely inadequate in dealing with the need. New Zealand must commit to long-term climate financing for poor countries. They need stronger sea walls, they need cyclone-proof shelters, they need drought-resistant crops and they need them now.
This is not the time to ignore the voices of the most vulnerable countries. It is not a matter of aid – it is a matter of fulfilling our responsibility.
Yours in hope,
<Your name will be added here>
I am pleased that you are taking an active part in one of the most crucial meetings of our time. New Zealand must be serious about taking action to avoid catastrophic climate change and protecting the future of our Pacific neighbours. I urge you not to block, but to support a treaty that is fair to developing countries, ambitious enough to tackle the problem and legally binding. Along with other rich countries, New Zealand must not try to re-negotiate the mandate for the past two years of negotiations at the last minute in a way that is deeply unfair to developing countries.
Avoiding catastrophic climate change is not possible unless all big emitters commit to ambitious action, however, industrialised countries must take the lead. Emerging economies will quickly follow and are in fact already taking action to reduce their own emissions. New Zealand needs to commit to a more ambitious greenhouse gas reduction target of at least 40 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020, and to make these reductions at home rather than paying poor countries to do our fair share.
It is the responsibility of rich countries, which have caused the climate crisis, to financially support poor countries, which are least to blame but suffering first and worst from the effects. New Zealand’s pledge at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting last month to the Fast Start fund is a very modest first step. However, it is completely inadequate in dealing with the need. New Zealand must commit to long-term climate financing for poor countries. They need stronger sea walls, they need cyclone-proof shelters, they need drought-resistant crops and they need them now.
This is not the time to ignore the voices of the most vulnerable countries. It is not a matter of aid – it is a matter of fulfilling our responsibility.
Yours in hope,
<Your name will be added here>
I am pleased that you are taking an active part in one of the most crucial meetings of our time. New Zealand must be serious about taking action to avoid catastrophic climate change and protecting the future of our Pacific neighbours. I urge you not to block, but to support a treaty that is fair to developing countries, ambitious enough to tackle the problem and legally binding. Along with other rich countries, New Zealand must not try to re-negotiate the mandate for the past two years of negotiations at the last minute in a way that is deeply unfair to developing countries.
Avoiding catastrophic climate change is not possible unless all big emitters commit to ambitious action, however, industrialised countries must take the lead. Emerging economies will quickly follow and are in fact already taking action to reduce their own emissions. New Zealand needs to commit to a more ambitious greenhouse gas reduction target of at least 40 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020, and to make these reductions at home rather than paying poor countries to do our fair share.
It is the responsibility of rich countries, which have caused the climate crisis, to financially support poor countries, which are least to blame but suffering first and worst from the effects. New Zealand’s pledge at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting last month to the Fast Start fund is a very modest first step. However, it is completely inadequate in dealing with the need. New Zealand must commit to long-term climate financing for poor countries. They need stronger sea walls, they need cyclone-proof shelters, they need drought-resistant crops and they need them now.
This is not the time to ignore the voices of the most vulnerable countries. It is not a matter of aid – it is a matter of fulfilling our responsibility.
Yours in hope,
<Your name will be added here>
I am pleased that you are taking an active part in one of the most crucial meetings of our time. New Zealand must be serious about taking action to avoid catastrophic climate change and protecting the future of our Pacific neighbours. I urge you not to block, but to support a treaty that is fair to developing countries, ambitious enough to tackle the problem and legally binding. Along with other rich countries, New Zealand must not try to re-negotiate the mandate for the past two years of negotiations at the last minute in a way that is deeply unfair to developing countries.
Avoiding catastrophic climate change is not possible unless all big emitters commit to ambitious action, however, industrialised countries must take the lead. Emerging economies will quickly follow and are in fact already taking action to reduce their own emissions. New Zealand needs to commit to a more ambitious greenhouse gas reduction target of at least 40 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020, and to make these reductions at home rather than paying poor countries to do our fair share.
It is the responsibility of rich countries, which have caused the climate crisis, to financially support poor countries, which are least to blame but suffering first and worst from the effects. New Zealand’s pledge at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting last month to the Fast Start fund is a very modest first step. However, it is completely inadequate in dealing with the need. New Zealand must commit to long-term climate financing for poor countries. They need stronger sea walls, they need cyclone-proof shelters, they need drought-resistant crops and they need them now.
This is not the time to ignore the voices of the most vulnerable countries. It is not a matter of aid – it is a matter of fulfilling our responsibility.
Yours in hope,
<Your name will be added here>
