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Climate Campaigners On-Line
26 August 1997
World leaders will be bombarded by thousands of messages this week from concerned people across the globe demanding urgent action to stop dangerous climate change. A unique electronic campaigning network, set up by Friends of the Earth, is being launched as a new weapon in the battle to combat governments' apathy over climate change. The network - Climate On-Line - harnesses the power of e-mail to deluge world leaders with personal messages urging action to protect the environment.
Climate On-Line is designed to maximise public pressure in the run up to the crucial UN Climate Summit in Kyoto in December this year. At the touch of a button, individuals can send a simple message to world leaders urging them to agree to legally-binding targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions and stopping dangerous climate change. Progress at climate negotiations to date has been blocked by countries such as the US and Japan,influenced by lobbying from powerful fossil fuel industries.
Anna Stanford of Friends of the Earth said:
"This is a new way of campaigning for the environmental movement and potentially an extremely powerful one. Over the next 100 days leading up to Kyoto we envisage thousands of messages being sent to world leaders demanding urgent action to stop dangerous climate change."
Climate On-Line's first letter blitz was aimed at the Prime Minister of Japan, Ryatoro Hashimoto and asked Japan to ensure that the Kyoto conference was a success. The second e-mail action will take place in September, shortly before President Clinton holds an important conference at the White House on global climate change.
To find out more about Climate On-Line and how to join this unique campaigning network,visit Friends of the Earth's climate change web site at http://www.foe.co.uk/climatechange or send a blank email to climateonline@foe.co.uk
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