[SustainableTompkins] Fwd: Urgent -- 24 hours for youth to be heard in Bali! (UN climate summit)

[Mike Cook]

Hi folks,

Apologies for any duplications . . . this just in from our local UN climate
summit delegate.

- Mike

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From: Dominic Frongillo <dominic.frongillo at sustainus.org>
Date: Dec 5, 2007 9:41 AM
Subject: Urgent -- 24 hours for youth to be heard in Bali!
To: Dominic Frongillo <dominic.frongillo at sustainus.org >


Hey wonderful people back in the States,

Can you forward the message below to all your networks of students and young
people? We need as many signatures as possible from young people -- by
tomorrow!

Forward or visit: www.avaaz.org/youth_climate_message to distribute far &
wide.

Thanks a ton,
Dominic


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Attention global youth!
*
In less than 24 hours,* hundreds of members of youth networks around the
world are meeting with the chair of the biggest international climate
negotiations in a decade--and they need our help to make sure they are
heard!

Right now in Bali, Indonesia, 192 governments are at the UN negotiating a
new international climate agreement. By next week, they will either agree to
launch urgent negotiations for a new global treaty that can finally avert
this crisis, or the sumit will fail. Young people are the biggest
stakeholders in climate change and we have the most to lose at Bali. The
youth delegates will deliver messages from young people around the world at
their meeting tomorrow. We need a massive show of young voices – in the next
24 hours -- *to tell leaders in Bali to take bold climate action now. Click
on the link below to send your message:
 *
http://www.avaaz.org/en/youth_climate_message/1.php

Young people and all future generations will be hit hardest by climate
change. Even UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon acknowledged us as the most
important stakeholders on this issue. Yet, all too often these important
decisions are made behind closed doors by out of touch politicians. That's
why we need to remind them that Bali is not a holiday, it's a critical
chance to protect OUR future. But to make a real impact these hundreds of
youth must show that they speak for thousands.

By coming together, young people from around the world are creating a global
youth climate movement to fight for the bold action needed to safeguard our
future. Bali is our big moment. If we're going to be heard we need to shout
as loud as possible. Send your message now, then forward this email to all
your friends!

http://www.avaaz.org/en/youth_climate_message/1.php

>From Bali with hope,
The youth delegates to the UN climate conference





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