Join our global movement to demand action on climate change.

Communities in the Global South are already facing the devastating impacts of climate change, despite doing least to cause it. Political leaders, from industrialized countries in particular, have a moral responsibility to respond to both the causes and effects of a crisis that they helped to create. Over the coming year, leading up to the United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen, Denmark in December 2009, they will be negotiating a new global agreement that will help secure our shared future.

Join our growing international movement for climate justice! Call on President-Elect Obama and other world leaders to work towards a fair and equitable international agreement that addresses both the causes and effects of climate change. The agreement must:

• Cultivate Justice! Recognise and protect the right to sustainable development of people in developing countries.
• Cultivate Support! Ensure industrialized countries provide sufficient, secure and accessible financial and technological support for adaptation and mitigation efforts by developing countries.
• Cultivate Commitment! Commit to at least 30- 40% reduction in emissions by industrialized countries by 2020 (based on 1990 levels).

Scroll across the field above and click on individual plants to see messages from climate justice activists around the world. Then simply click on a signpost to create a symbolic plant with your own name and message. We will send your concerns to President-Elect Obama, and your voice will join the growing international chorus calling on world leaders to "Cultivate a Climate for Justice!"

Links:

• About the Campaign
• Ecology & Development Project

Campaign Documents:

• A Call for Climate Justice, Statement by Catholic Bishops, December 7, 2008
• Catholic Aid Agencies Launch Climate Change Campaign, Press Release, December 7, 2008
• Development and Climate Justice, CIDSE Policy Paper, November 2008