@Real_Leaders joins the silent snowman protest at #Davos2015. 193 snowmen, 1 for each country demanding @action2015
"People have the power to create extraordinary change when they come together." UN Environment
In less than ten days, the Action2015 Coalition has rolled out unprecedented actions from a network of UN groups and governments, billionaires and NGOs in a monumental mega-push to ensure 2015 is a game-changer in social and economic investments to create "The World We Want" within the next 15 years.
Here are some highlights:
The UN launch of "The World We Want" is calling on citizens everywhere to sign up and share their priorities to build "a collective vision that will be used directly by the United Nations and World Leaders to plan a new development agenda launching in 2015, one that is based on the aspirations of all citizens!"
Climate change threatens to destroy the lives of millions more and undo all the progress we have made so far. Inequality is growing everywhere and human rights are being undermined in the worlds most fragile and conflict affected countries while the world economy continues to falter.
Despite all of this, for the first time in history we do have the resources to end poverty and grow our world sustainably. It will take the work of all of us to make this happen and we must make our Governments listen and take action on the things that matter most to people everywhere!
You truly can get lost for hours in this enormous interactive global campaign so sign in ASAP and in the meantime, check out their phenomenal
trending map which lists all the major issues and already has 910 items and 6772 comments from
4677 users.
Gates Releases "Most Powerful Tool In The History of Social Activism"
From the private sector, The Gates Foundation announced yesterday a similar project, the launch of Global Citizen, its commitment to fund the creation of an enormous and comprehensive global citizens data base, which allows people to sign up to give voice to the the issues and causes that most concern them. This "Moneyball era of activism" database can be investigated via area of interest, region and several other fields.
Right now, there are 1.2 billion people in the world who are deprived of basic rights and opportunities to achieve their potential. We’re a community, hundreds of thousands of people strong, who just aren’t willing to accept that--and we’re doing something about it. This is the place where you can amplify your voice, use your passion, and take action.
The dream is to have people in the big list declare, ‘OK, I’m particularly interested in the environment.’ And then we go to Al Gore’s people or whatever, and say, “OK those people, you figure out what messages go to them.” If they say health, OK we’re enough of a fair broker in the health game that we can come up with a finite set of messages that would include all the health people, if it’s hunger, if it’s education, and how you partition that out the right way. I think it’s very doable. I’m quite optimistic.”Bill Gates interview with Forbes
"The countdown has begun to September’s summit on the sustainable development goals, with national governments now discussing the 17 goals that could transform the world by 2030."
The Guardian. An Interactive.
As the MDG deadline approaches, around 1 billion people still live on less then $1.25 a day - the World Bank measure on poverty - and more than 800 million people do not have enough food to eat. Women are still fighting hard for their rights, and millions of women still die in childbirth.
UNICEF has kicked off its campaign to ensure that the rights of children are a centerpiece of the 17 Sustainability Goals with its
#EveryChild2015 campaign
The Davos Challenge
Drawing attention to children and education, UBS and the UBS Optimus Foundation has been pressuring world leaders to put some skin in the game at the World Economic Forum's 2015 Annual Meeting in Davos. They are donating a bicycle to a schoolchild in Africa on behalf of every participant who walks 6 kilometers during the meeting. This action is to promote awareness between high drop out rates and the exceptionally long distances African youth travel for education. Every day, for example, half a million rural South African kids walk up to six kilometres each day to reach a school.
Actions
1. Become an active participant in shaping The World We Want
2. Global Citizen: connect with information, organizations, events, and campaigns - all geared towards the goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030Get Involved
3. Follow @Action2015 on Twitter for inspirational stories from around the world, find your niche, become involved and share with your social networks and friends
4. Show up in San Jose, California This Sunday
This Sunday at 2pm, Ash Kalra along with speakers from 350 Silicon Valley , Forest Ethics, and Center for Biological Diversity will hold a forum at San Jose’s City Hall to highlight the safety and environmental hazards associated with the oil trains. An event well attended by Climate activists will show Ash Kalra, who recently announced he will run for State Assembly in 2016, that Climate Change policy is an issue important to voters as he prepares his campaign.
~ Please RSVP for the event here.
(See Glen The Plumber's post for more details:
This Sunday: The Threat of Oil Trains in San Jose)
5. Each morning at 8 AM Pacific ClimateDenierRoundUp posts a short overview highlight the latest news about the climate denier movement. Let's show them some gratitude for their relentless work by recommending, sharing or commenting in a few of their posts.
6. Join and support the work of The Climate Action Hub as we strive to do our part in activating and educating the Daily Kos community as we move through the most powerful year in climate and basic human rights activism.
7. There's a lot going on this year in Climate Activism, entirely too much for the eco writers here at DK to cover. Add information about any eco news you've come across in the past few days in the comments section below.
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The Climate Action Hub
Building upon the momentum generated by the People's Climate March, The Climate Action Hub focuses the energy and ideas that converged around the 2014 UN Climate Summit to engage civil participation in local, regional and global climate action. The Hub will be publishing twice a week, Mondays and Friday mornings @ 8 Pacific. We showcase NGOs, eco writers, scientists, bloggers and YOU in a group mission as part of our mission to amplify messaging and promote action on such issues as climate justice, sustainable development and clean energy. It will also serve as a forum for educating and informing the wider public and expand the civil movement to ensure success at the 2015 UNFCCC Paris Climate Summit. Please add any information on climate actions in comments below.
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