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Written by Simone Preuss 
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The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) launched the first-ever Global Climate Week on September 19. From September 21-25, 100 cities around the world, including New York, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Mexico City and Nairobi, will take part together with corporations, communities and individuals. The goal is for people around the world to get their activist shoes on and to encourage their leaders to seek an effective climate agreement.
Many of the participating cities have adopted the UN’s “Seal the Deal!” slogan that aims at world leaders sealing a “fair, balanced and effective agreement on climate change” later this year at the UN Climate Change Conference December 7-18 in Copenhagen.
Global Climate Week coincides with the UN’s Summit on Climate Change on September 22 in New York during which UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed the fact that climate change requires global solidarity and that 2009 has been proclaimed “the year of climate change”.
There’s still time to find out about Global Climate Week events in your city. And until the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, there are many ways to raise awareness about climate change such as joining local chapters and communities supporting the issue or simply signing the Seal the Deal! global petition online which will be presented at the conference in Copenhagen.
To date, 25,381 supporters have already signed, among them well-known public figures. The video above features six of them from four continents dedicated to climate change: Mohamed Nasheed, President of the Maldives; 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Professor Wangari Maathai from Kenya; Philippe Cousteau, CEO of EarthEcho International and grandson of oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau; violinist and UN Messenger of Peace Midori; Oscar-nominated actor Don Cheadle and wildlife filmmaker; and conservationist Saba Douglas-Hamilton.
See, you’d be in good company!
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anna_sandbag says:
Sep 25th, 2009 at 5pm
And hot on the heels of climate week - the world's first ever global freerunning jam in aid of tackling climate change in 100 cities. Check out www.sandbag.org.uk/onegiantleap
cjniya (not verified) says:
Sep 26th, 2009 at 1am
If someone told you that soap is better than the shampoo, would you use soap instead of shampoo? If someone told you that soap is better for the environment than the shampoo, but not for your skin, would you use it? Human beings are the most selfish race in this planet, in my opinion. Especially the western people, we learnt the Bible since we were little children, and everything in the Bible seems as the truth for us. God say we are the master of this planet and all the other races are existed for us. Then we just do everything to prove it. We cut down the tree, we hunt animals, and that is us who make several races to be extinct.
In the last two or three decades, some of us began to care about the planet we live in. They raised our attention to the topic of environmental protection. Most of us take part in the movement of protecting our earth, but the environmental protection is not only the words which are printed on the rubber wristbands, it is the action; it is what we do in the daily life. It is more convenient to take a taxi than take the bus, but the mass transportation is obviously better for the environment. But how many people would care about it? To drink water is good for our health and could reduce the pollution which would be produced by the process of producing the drinks, but we would like to have a tie of Cola than a glass of water. To be vegetarian would save more food for the people in Africa, but we would like to have the beef steak rather than the vegetable salad. Only the one who wants to keep fit would have the vegetarian diet. These little things could help to improve the environment situation. But we failed to do them.
Richard (not verified) says:
Oct 23rd, 2009 at 6am
At any rate, solar power is still the way to go because it does no harm to the environment and is low-priced.
Richard (not verified) says:
Oct 26th, 2009 at 4am
“It’s amazing what people can do to make the world a better place. Though, I have to say, this wouldn’t have had happened if we were more cautious about our environment (debatable as it may be), it’s still nice to know that alternative sources of fuel are being more of a trend.”
Julie (not verified) says:
Between now and December 2009, we are all urged to show our support for sealing a deal in Copenhagen by continuing to build the momentum created during Global Climate Week by signing the Climate Petition at www.sealthedeal2009.org.