Climate change campaigning
Urgent action is more important than ever. Climate change is such a massive threat to the world, affecting all the conservation and environmental work we do at WWF.
World leaders missed a huge opportunity to agree a climate deal at December’s Copenhagen summit. But it’s unlikely they’d have achieved even the (rather weak) Copenhagen Accord if it hadn’t been for huge public pressure exerted before and during the negotiations.
Indeed Ed Miliband, the UK energy and climate change secretary, has admitted: “We made the progress that we did, not just because governments wanted it to happen but because people made it happen. It is very important that the campaign carries on...” (Mr Miliband also has a direct request for WWF supporters, by the way.)
It’s all thanks to the thousands of you who joined our campaign for a strong global climate deal – you’re part of an inspiring global movement of millions of people, communities, businesses and governments calling for positive climate action. And there’s lots more still to be done.
The Copenhagen setback is all the more reason to step up pressure. Delays will only cause greater impacts on people and nature, and make it harder and costlier to cope with the effects of climate change.
WWF’s Earth Hour – our worldwide symbolic lights-out event – is coming at just the right time. It’s the ideal chance to show you care about climate change, and to remind world leaders to finish the job.
Switch off and support WWF’s Earth Hour – Saturday 27 March 2010, 8.30pm
You can also...
- call for 42% carbon cuts in the UK
- clean up our act on coal
- ask the Climate Question during the general election
- find out how your actions helped in Copenhagen, and what to do next
- see our summary: Copenhagen - failure or stepping stone
