Tackling Climate Change - Working with Avaaz to put climate change on the agenda at the UN Security Council

Avaaz recently sent out a new Action Alert with a request for assistance to help address Climate Change. Their most recent campaign, stems from the fact that due to an acceleration in sea level, a group of small islands' leaders plan to take the unprecedented step of putting a resolution before the United Nations, calling upon the Security Council to address climate change. Avaaz asks us, and our communities to stand with these people by signing an online petition.

This is a creative move born of desperation, a challenge to global powers to end their complacency and tackle this lethal crisis with the urgency of wars. This effort could help shift the tenor of the world's debate -- from a far-off storm cloud to a life-threatening crisis here and now. But the island states' campaign will meet fierce opposition from the world biggest polluters, so they need our help. Sign the petition now to raise a worldwide chorus of support for this call -- our signatures will be presented to the UN by the islands' ambassadors as they introduce their resolution next week: http://www.avaaz.org/en/sos_small_islands

For a report on Avaaz's campaigning so far, see: https://secure.avaaz.org/en/report_back_2

These are the States who are sponsoring the resolution: Fiji, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Seychelles, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, joined by Canada and Turkey.

For a draft of the Small Islands States Resolution, please see: http://islandsfirst.org/draftres.pdf

For more information about those presenting the petition please visit: http://islandsfirst.org