First, the great news. With your help, last week Oxfam hit its goal of ONE MILLION people worldwide who signed our petition calling on the G8 leaders to put climate change and poverty at the top of the agenda. This is an amazing achievement. It shows the G8 leaders that the world is demanding they act now. Thank you for helping to push us over the top!
Now for the bad news. While the G8 leaders agreed to try to cut emissions by half by 2050, they did not come up with a plan to reach that goal or any short-term benchmarks-and without those, their promise could be just a lot of hot air. Oxfam works every day with people whose lives and livelihoods are already being affected by climate change, so we know the devastating effects it has on poor people. But we can’t win this fight alone. Please take a moment to email congress and tell the presidential candidates to:
1) Commit the US to reducing its global warming pollution to a level consistent with limiting warming to 2 degrees Celsius over preindustrial levels;
2) Dedicate new and sufficient funding to help developing countries adapt to climate change impacts such as flooding, droughts, crop failures, and disease;
3) Shift subsidies for fossil fuels like oil and coal to support clean energy solutions;
4) Engage constructively in international negotiations and committing the US to mandatory targets to reduce global warming pollution.
