Global Women Take Action on Climate Change in Climate Week NYC (Blog Action Day)

Global Women Take Action on Climate Change Climate Week NYC

During Climate Week in NYC, Global Women leaders focused on ways in which women around the world are providing leadership and organizing their communities in confronting the devastating human impacts of climate change. As a young woman environmentalist, it was so inspiring to be around Global women leaders who already are stewards in a global issue in need of immediate global action.

Carol Jenkins, President of the Women’s Media Center, welcomed 60 high-profile guests from media, policy, government, business, NGOS and entertainment on behalf of the TckTckTck campaign. Speakers included: Mary Robinson, first woman President of Ireland, Constance Okollet, Chairperson of Osukura United Women; Ritt Bjerregaard, Lord Mayor of Copenhagen;Bo Lim, the Special Climate Change Adviser at the United Nations Development Program; TckTckTck Climate Witnesses Sharon Hanshaw, Executive Director, Coastal Women for Change, Constance Okollet, Chairperson, Osukura United Women, Ursula Rakova, Executive Director, Tulele Peisa, and Ulamila Kurai Wragg, Head of Climate Change Team, WAVE.

Global Women Leaders answers UNICEF’s Unite for Climate Youtube debate

YOUTH CLIMATE DEBATE 

Are your political leaders doing enough about climate change?

Ritt Bjerregaard, Lord Mayor of Copenhagen

Bo Lim, the Special Climate Change Adviser 

at the United Nations Development Program

Tracy Mann of TCK TCK TCK

Constance Okollet, Chairperson of Osukura United Women, Uganda 

Ursula Rakova from the NGO Tulele Peisa, Papua New Guniea

Women still under-represented in climate debate

SUN COME UP

"WE NEED MORE WOMEN LEADERS"

 

 

International Day of Climate Action in Philippines (Blog Action Day)

International Day of Climate Action in CEBU

On October 24, people around the world take a stand on Climate Change for the International Day of Climate Action.

The 350.org team has just secured permission to display the 350 photos from around the world on the MASSIVE screens in the heart of New York City, with global media standing by to broadcast the story worldwide!  The photos from the big day will all have the number 350 depicted in them somehow, and will act as a huge visual petition that we'll send to world leaders. On the Monday after October 24th, the 350.org crew will be visiting UN headquarters to hand-deliver the photos to diplomats and delegates the world over.

What is Ecohope doing for 350 day?

 

  

On October 20, Esperanza Garcia, blogger of Ecohope, along with the brilliant Byron Garcia, and talented photographer, Vito Selma, bring together the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) inmates, to make a 350 statement. CPDRC is a maximum security prison in Cebu, Philippines. The prison is best known worldwide for their version of Micheal Jackson's Thriller video. 

 

RSVP Here: http://www.350.org/philippines350

We will stand together as one planet and call for a fair global climate treaty. United by a common call to action, we'll make it clear: the world needs an international plan that meets the latest science and gets us back to safety.

Promote Philippines, promote 350- LET US TELL EVERYONE ABOUT THIS EVENT!

 

For media coverage please contact Vito Selma at donvitoselma@yahoo.com

For CPDRC contact Byron Garcia at byron_garcia86@yahoo.com

Thanks to Vito Selma for coming up with brilliant idea!

BLOG ACTION DAY FOCUSES ON THE PHILIPPINES!

CNN: BLOGGERS UNITE ON CLIMATE CHANGE in Philippines

BLOGGERS KAPIHAN: Filipino bloggers take a stand on climate change

BLOG ACTION DAY: THE INTERNATIONAL YOUTH CLIMATE MOVEMENT FOR COP15

THE INTERNATIONAL YOUTH CLIMATE MOVEMENT FOR COP15

A message to the Youth of the World: 

We need to mobilize for ambitious goals

 A. A Global Youth Climate Change Bill by the youth for the youth

Gathering Global Youth Ambassadors from each country to sign a Global Youth Climate Change Bill that is ambitious, fair, and binding. As young citizens, we are responsible in the development of global policies that provide ourselves a framework in moving on further in the green agenda.

 

B. Provide innovative solutions to ensure that the Millennium Development Goals are met by 2015

Climate change presents significant threats to the achievement of the MDGs especially those related to eliminating poverty and hunger and promoting environmental sustainability. Our generation must mobilize to provide poverty eradication methods and sustainable development objectives that ensures the achievement of the MDGs.

 

C. The Global Youth Climate Change Center

The center will become a symposium where the youth can gain more hindsight on the effects of the degradation of Climate Change, and work with leading academics to find innovative and constructive solutions to Climate Change.

 

The world is facing unprecedented environmental and social challenges. We need to gather with new ways of thinking, new cultural values, and new ways of organizing society. We have the resources and technology available. We have the ability to present innovative solutions to solve the global challenges that we are facing. We need to bring our international efforts together not only in the mitigation of Climate Change but also provide resources for the adaptation of the impacts of Climate Change. Copenhagen is the most appropriate time to develop an international youth climate movement.

 

We are in this together,

 

Esperanza Garcia 

  

 

Posted on BLOG ACTION DAY October 15, 2009