KYOTO NOW!

On December 8, Rally Around the Earth for Climate Justice and a Safer, Healthier Planet!
You have a power you may not recognize - the power to stop climate chaos. According to the World Health Organization, climate change is already killing 150,000 people every year, and that could double to 300,000 annual deaths by 2030. Whole ecosystems face upheaval and millions of people face displacement. The climate is in crisis, but we can avoid climate catastrophe if we take action now to save the Kyoto Protocol.

People around the world are preparing for the largest planetary day of action yet to stop climate chaos. Join hundreds of thousands of people in 60 countries (and counting) who will be on the streets to demand that world leaders take the urgent and resolute action that is needed to prevent catastrophic climate chaos. The entire world needs to move as rapidly as possible to a stronger emissions reductions treaty, which is both equitable and effective in preventing dangerous climate change.

SAVE KYOTO. SAVE THE WORLD.

In December, 190 countries will meet in Bali, Indonesia for the UN Kyoto Climate Talks to negotiate our future. On December 8, the people of Canada can stand in solidarity with millions worldwide to demand our leaders take real action. It is time for the Canadian government to stop lagging behind and do its fair share on climate change. Long-time industrialized countries like Canada that have emitted most greenhouse gases up to now must take most of the responsibility for the adaptive measures that have to be taken, especially by helping low-emitting countries with limited economic resources.

In Canada, the case is particularly severe: Canada declared our Kyoto targets unachievable and joined Bush's club of polluting nations who think a "voluntary" approach will reach our commitments, rejecting the European model of real greenhouse gas reductions. The focus on reducing emissions "intensity" of the Asia Pacific Partnership is a literal carbon smokescreen that would actually allow overall emissions to go up instead of down. December 8 is our day to tell our government that the only path to a stable climate runs through Kyoto!

IT'S TIME FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE.

We categorically reject false technological "fixes" for climate change. Embracing questionable technologies will not only fail to solve our climate crisis, they may create new and dangerous problems. The renewable energy technologies needed to solve climate change exist today, and we need a "just transition" strategy in Canada to ensure workers in non-renewable energy industries can make the shift to the mass production of sustainable energy from water, wind and sun.

Although they did not cause climate change, billions of people in the global South will be most affected by it, losing their sources of food, livelihoods and sustenance. For many, it is a matter of life and death. Their voices must be heard around the world, and our policies and actions must support their courageous efforts to adapt to, as well as to offer creative solutions to, the alarming changes occurring in their ecosystems right now. December 8 could be the demonstration the world has been waiting for. The Earth needs you to take to the streets to demand climate action. Will you be a part of it?

In Canada, this joint call to action is being issued by Stop Climate Chaos - Canada in partnership with the University of Windsor Environmental Coalition, ACT for the Earth, Association québécoise de lutte contre la pollution atmosphérique (AQLPA), the Canadian Biotech Action Network, the Canadian Federation of Students, the Canadian Labour Congress, the Canadian Peace Alliance, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, Canadian Unitarians for Social Justice, the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition, Coalition Québec Kyoto, the Communication, Energy, and Paperworkers Union of Canada, Conservation Council of New Brunswick, the Council of Canadians, David Suzuki Foundation, the Ecology Action Centre, Environmental Coalition of Prince Edward Island, Fredericton Peace Coalition, Greenpeace, NUPGE (the National Union of Public and General Employees), Sierra Club of Canada, SOS Eau Water Sankwan, the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa, St John Citizens Coalition For Clean Air, the Toronto & York Region Labour Council, and USC Canada.

TAKE ACTION.

Pan-Canadian actions on December 8 are being organized, through local, city and rural based coalitions, and are currently planned for:

Windsor, Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Moncton, Kamloops, Regina, Charlottetown, Winnipeg, Quebec City, Vancouver, Edmonton, Sackville, Calgary, St Johns and Halifax.

Details, including contact information, are here: www.climatechaos.ca. No rally planned for your location? Plan one! Contact actions@ourclimate.ca, director@ourclimate.ca, or campaigns@actfortheearth.org to get involved!

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