tcktcktck — Copenhagen 7 Dec 09 | The World Is Ready

World leaders know they failed to produce a climate treaty at Copenhagen. Climate change is putting life on earth in peril, but there is still time to build a safer, greener world. The climate deal we need in 2010 is what they didn't get done in 2009.

We want a strong climate treaty that not only reverses the march of dangerous climate change, but also helps us tackle some of the world’s largest challenges. We can create millions of green jobs, reduce healthcare costs, lift millions out of poverty, and put renewable energy into the hands of everyday citizens in the developing world.

Leading experts, scientific bodies, and economists have documented the benefits of strong action on climate change. Copenhagen should have been remembered as the moment when world leaders made bold decisions, but they didn't. Our leaders aren’t done yet, and we still need the same thing.

We call on our leaders to sign a global climate deal that is:

FAIR: for the poorest countries and people that did not cause climate change but will suffer most from it.

AMBITIOUS: enough to leave a planet safe for us all.

BINDING: with real targets that can be legally monitored and enforced.

Leading experts, scientific bodies, and economists have documented the benefits of strong action on climate change. Copenhagen could be remembered as the moment when world leaders built a clean energy economy or when they failed to secure an agreement that is fair enough for everybody to agree on, ambitious enough to work, and binding enough to stick.

Add your name to the call for a global deal to save our planet from catastrophic climate change.

Official Campaign Asks

We want our political leaders to be in Copenhagen and to show historic leadership in achieving a treaty that is fair, ambitious, and binding:

FAIR

• Reduce developed country emissions by at least 40% by 2020.
• Enable and support poor countries to adapt to the worst consequences of the climate crisis, reduce their emissions and ensure technology sharing including through the provision of sufficient public funds.
• Protect marginalized communities in rich and poor countries.

AMBITIOUS

• Ensure that global greenhouse emissions peak no later than 2015 and then decline steeply on a pathway to ensure concentrations of less that 350ppm in the atmosphere.
• Create a pathway to clean jobs and clean energy for all.
• Establish necessary conditions for a sustainable and prosperous future for people, flora and fauna.

BINDING

• Agree to a legally binding international agreement that can be verified and enforced.

See below our Chair, Kumi Naidoo, discuss what is at stake in Copenhagen, and what a fair, ambitious, and binding climate deal will do for the world.