[Pil-pc-oceania] fwd: petition for Thursday March 15: G8 in Germany

[petra.kahle at haztech.com.au]

Dear friends,

I am one of over 50,000 people from 131 countries around the world
demanding G8 leaders to take action to stop the climate crisis. This is
urgent, and I thought you might be interested - please see the email
below.

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Dear friend,

This Thursday, the environment ministers from the G8, the world's biggest
contributors to climate change, will be meeting in Germany. The outcome of
this meeting is crucial to world's response to global warming.

Avaaz.org has been invited to attend this meeting to present our climate
change petition. A strong voice for action could help set the agenda for
the G8. To help seize this opportunity, click below:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/climate_action_germany/tf/php

The G8 is a summit of world leaders from the "Group of 8" largest
economies. Together, these countries account for 50% of global greenhouse
gas emissions--the gasses that cause climate change. The full G8 summit is
coming in June, but the agenda and outcome of this type of high-profile
event is usually set far in advance--at meetings like the one this
Thursday.

This year, the president of the G8 is German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Her
environment minister, Sigmar Gabriel, is in charge of the ministers
meeting Thursday. And at 4 pm on March 15th, we have a personal meeting
with Mr. Gabriel to present our petition for binding emissions targets to
stop catastrophic climate change.

Merkel has indicated an interest in making climate change a top priority.
With a significant global petition, we can make the case that the world is
ready for aggressive leadership on climate change--and pave the way for
truly historic commitments at the G8 summit this June.

It's a rare opportunity to have a global impact. Add your voice to the
petition now:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/climate_action_germany/tf.php

50,000 people from 131 countries have already demanded action. Our goal is
to reach 100,000. Please sign the petition, forward this email to friends
and family, and post the link on your blog--we only have a few days to
make this statement count.

If we add our voices together, now, 2007 can become the year we took the
first step to save the world.

With hope,

Ricken, David, Iain, Lee-Sean, Galit, Graziela, and the rest of the
Avaaz.org team