Call for climate justice at the G20
14 January 2011

In April, leaders from the 20 most powerful countries on earth will meet in London. The G20 includes the G8 and other countries that are growing fast.

G20 leaders must act to prevent dangerous climate change and make progress on climate justice.

Climate justice would mean the world's poorest people aren't left to deal with a problem they did little to create.

Over 100 organisations, including Friends of the Earth have signed up to the Put People First coalition. We aim to tell the G20 to focus on the human side of the financial and climate crisis.

Sign the Put People First petition here to add your support. We'll also email Gordon Brown a copy of the text on your behalf.

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Dear Prime Minister,

If you are serious about avoiding climate catastrophe, you must make sure that our economic system helps tackle climate change. The G20 summit is a vital opportunity to lead on getting a just and sufficient agreement on climate change in 2009. The financial crisis has demonstrated to people in rich and poor countries that the current international economic system doesn't work. We need a radically different economic system which puts people and the planet first. The only sustainable way to rebuild the global system is to create a fair distribution of wealth that provides decent jobs and public services for all, to end global poverty and inequality and to build a green economy. The UK should lead industrialised countries by cutting at least 40 per cent of emissions by 2020 with no offsetting. The UK must also fulfil its financial commitments so that developing countries too can fight climate change and achieve clean development goals. As we head towards critical climate negotiations in Copenhagen, I call upon the G20 leaders to Put People First when they meet in London on April 2nd.

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14 January 2011