TIGblogs - Richard Graves

The EU is in danger of weakening its climate position as we head into the negotiations in Poland. You can help. Send an e-mail to each of the 6 listed Members of Parliament and tell them that the climate disruptions don’t listen to what is politically correct.

Read the response that I sent to each of them: Read below the fold for more information.

Dear

I hope you can guide the ongoing climate treaty negotiations to a safe and prosperous outcome. This is potentially the biggest issue the world has ever faced, which means there are more invested interests, power centers and opinions than on any other issue. I understand that many governments, industries and organizations would like to weaken the proposed climate treaty to make it more ‘feasible’ and less ‘costly’. But we are starting to realize that the world needs to bring carbon levels down to 350 parts per million as quickly as possible. That is our bottom line, and any argument that it is too difficult is risking the destruction of our life here.

I am a grassroots organizer and youth climate activist in the United States. We are working around the clock here to ensure that our country makes a 180 degree shift, that our new leadership commits to facing the energy challenge. Given how hard we are working, I am terrified to hear that the global climate negotiations are in danger of loosing their potency. We are fighting for global warming and energy solutions, city by city and state by state. Please hear our voices urging you to keep up the good work and give us a strong climate policy that gets us to 350 parts per million.

Thank you very much,

Morgan Goodwin
North Adams, MA
Sierra Student Coalition

Friends, things on the political side of the climate process are turning really bad here, in the EU. Please, please, spread the message from below through all your climate-related contacts and networks in the world, not just in Europe! We want those MEPs to be emailed by as many people from all over the world as possible, pleading to them to save the EU’s political position at the negotiations in Poznan and Copenhagen! It’s really urgent, please help!

/Oleg

This is an URGENT report and rushing call for action directly from Sven Heijbel in Brussels. The alert below must activate as many networks as possible to take IMMEDIATE action in order to prevent a collapse of the European and World climate policies!

The NGO organizations (like WWF, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Oxfam, Can Europe) lobbying experts and friendly Members of Parliament are at this very moment telling us that the already weak EU climate package is being watered down by massive industry lobby. EU is an absolute key actor in the international climate negotiations and if Brussels won’t take leadership then it is hard to tell who can. This means that a robust climate deal in Copenhagen that is supposed to save us from dangerous climate change is not looking good. This is nothing but a global nightmare. If temperatures are allowed to rise by 4°C that would lead to an Armageddon scenario with burning rain forests, billions of refugees and a multi-meter sea level rise. This seems to be the way that the industry committee in the EU wants to go, but we cannot allow it! Their vote for the ETS, a central part of the EU energy package is already on Thursday so the best is to take action immediately. Remember that input after Thursday still is highly valuable.

Me, The NGO team, and even worried Members of Parliament on the inside are now begging on our knees for you to help put pressure on the key parliamentarians that we have identified as most important. European citizens are totally absent from the political stage right now, which means that a couple of hundred e-mails can make a huge difference. If you as an individual wants to make a significant difference for our common future, then now is the time!

This is what you can do:

Send an e-mail to each of the 6 listed Members of Parliament and tell them that the climate disruptions don’t listen to what is politically correct. Tell them that they are responsible for how our lives and our common home will look like and that this is the key issue for the Parliament elections next year. If you don’t feel like being specific, just demand that they do what is necessary to secure a living future and that this is a time for the making of heroes.

It is vitally important that this call is spread to all of your networks, blogging contacts and facebook. Call and e-mail all of your friends! The key decisions are taken in Brussels this week, so this is our chance!

Dorette Corbey, Netherlands dorette.corbey@europarl.europa.eu

Lena Ek, Sweden lena.ek@europarl.europa.eu

Eija-Riitta Korhola, Finland eija-riitta.korhola@europarl.europa.eu

Gunnar Hökmark, Sweden gunnar.hokmark@europarl.europa.eu

Werner Langen, Germany werner.langen@europarl.europa.eu

Johannes Swoboda, Austria hannes.swoboda@spoe.at

Friends, it is mind-blowing that we as individuals can change the way of history in the following days! From a terrified Sven Heijbel, Brussels

For more information on the specifics of the EU energy package and it’s potential contribution to global climate change, see the campaign site www.timetolead.eu . From here you can also easily take action to lobby on all the important MEPs from specific EU countries.