Global Climate Change Action

via: Yahoo Climate Change Action Group
Sydney climate emergency rally: organising meeting
***August 14***
Take part in organising a climate emergency rally in Sydney, September 27, please come to the first meeting:

6.30pm
Thursday August 14
UTS

We're seeking the involvement of as many groups and individuals as possible, so please forward this through your networks.

Supported by

Alison Potter, Climate Change Balmain-Rozelle
Brianna Pike, Resistance
Damien Lawson,
Climate Justice Coordinator Friends of the Earth Australia
Janet France, North Shore Climate Action
Jonathan Doig, Sutherland Climate Action Network
Jo Ferris, Sydney Uni enviro collective convenor
Jo Spangaro, Ryde Gladesville Climate Change Action Group
Kamala Emanuel, Socialist Alliance
Maria White, UNSW enviro collective co-convenor
Nicky Ison

*We need urgent action on climate change!*
A call for a national week of protest action beginning September 21
Climate change is already occurring, much faster than the world's
scientists have predicted. Recent data including the very real possibility of the arctic sea-ice melting by September this year demonstrate that this is a climate emergency.

We are concerned that the Australian government's proposed Emissions Trading Scheme will be full of loopholes and by the government's own admission will allow emissions to continue rising for some years. We believe such incremental measures are unacceptable: We need greenhouse emissions to start to fall immediately and sharply.

To begin to solve the problem we need action on many fronts including:

* No new coal;
* Massive public spending on renewable energy;
* More public transport not new freeways;
* End logging of old growth forests.

We call for a national week of protests across Australia at the Spring Equinox, in the week beginning September 21. This week of action can highlight the summer melt of the Arctic ice and other worrying signs that demand urgent measures to de-carbonise the economy from state and Federal governments.

We ask climate change campaign groups and networks and all environmentally concerned organisations across Australia to work together for a co-ordinated and effective week of public protest around these themes.

*Call issued by the organising committee for the July 5 Climate Emergency rally in Melbourne
Endorsed unanimously by participants at the final session of the August 2
Climate Justice seminar in Melbourne
http://www.climatejusticeseminar.blogspot.com
Please spread the word and START ORGANISING!!!