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From: Will Bates - 350.org <[email protected]>
To: robert searle <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, 31 May 2012, 19:38
Subject: A million strong.
Dear friends,
This is huge.
Two weeks ago we joined a diverse coalition to launch an all-out offensive to
end fossil fuel subsidies, and we weren't quite sure how it would turn out.
Well, we've currently got 958,422 signatures on our combined global petition --
almost a million people strong!
Will you help us get to a million by the end of the week? Sign on here:
www.350.org/rio
Once we get a million signatures, we'll move on to phase two: a surround-sound
campaign to put the pressure on world leaders at the G20 Summit in Mexico and
at the "Rio+20 Earth Summit" coming up in Brazil.
We'll be honest: we won't win the campaign to end fossil fuel subsidies with a
petition alone -- and we won't be able to wrap this up by the end of the Rio
Earth Summit. But being a million strong is a powerful starting point, and our
massive numbers will send an unignorable message to world leaders.
The truth is that ending these subsidies will take an ongoing and escalating
campaign -- which is why we're digging deep on multiple fronts. As I type this,
350.org staff and volunteers are putting together a cutting-edge social media
plan, planning a series of hard-hitting actions in countries around the world,
and working on game-changing research that will expose just how massive the
issue of subsidies is.
Our work on subsidies will continue in the weeks and months ahead -- but with
the global summits in Mexico and Rio happening in just a few weeks, we have a
unique moment to shine a light on a topic that all too often gets hidden and
ignored. And we can't ignore it any longer -- the issue of subsidies is just
too important. New research shows that getting rid of fossil fuel subsidies
would lead to massive reductions in the emissions that are super-heating our
planet -- and could help level the economic playing field and trigger a clean
energy revolution around the world.
One more thing: we’re saving June 18 for something special. It'll be the day
when we’ll deliver our collective petition to world leaders, but also a day
where we’ll try something a bit different -- and a day to take our message to
the halls of power in a brand new way.
We'll keep you posted on the next steps, but for now please help us reach the 1
million mark before the week is up: www.350.org/rio.
Onwards,
Will Bates for the 350.org Team
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Articles and Info
Phasing out fossil fuel subsidies 'could provide half of global carbon target'
|The Guardian go.350.org/M2kWyg
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