Have you heard the news? Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has just launched his blogging career, and like the Adopt-A-Negotiator trackers, he’s writing on climate change.
He’s asking for Australians to share their ideas with him, he wants to know: “how do you think we can make Australians more aware that we need to act on climate change now?”
This is a really exciting opportunity for you to share the concerns and ideas that you have shared with me through the Adopt-A-Negotiator blog.
Kev’s only taking comments on his climate change blog for a short time, the deadline is 5pm (AEST) on July 22. So, we’ve got to get our skates on!
How to make your voice heard:
- Go and read the PM’s blog on his website
- Post a comment on his blog
- When you post your comment, let Kev know that you are tracking the Australian government through the International climate change negotiations via the Adopt-A-Negotiator project. Who knows, he might take the time to check out some of our blogs!
- Copy and paste the ideas and concerns you share with Kev as a comment on this blog post. That way we can continue to inspire and motivate each other.
This is a great opportunity for all of us to speak, and more importantly, be heard. I am looking forward to hearing what you guys have to say!
Together, change is possible.
Cara
PS. I also blog on another website called A Climate for Change - it’s an on-line community of people from all around the world who care about climate change. You can check out the comments that members of A Climate for Change have sent to Kevin Rudd here. They’re well worth the read!
July 20, 2009 at 3:13 am
This is what I wrote to Kevin Rudd - I wanted to go short and punchy, but once I started typing I couldn’t stop! I look forward to reading the comments that you send to him.
- Cara
Thank you for inviting this discussion Mr Rudd.
I think we need more awareness here in Australia about the impacts that climate change is already having on our region, particularly, our brothers and sisters in the Pacific Islands. For Pacific Islanders, climate change is not something that might happen in the future, it is a reality that they are already facing in their day to day lives.
Rising sea levels and tidal surges are damaging crops and contaminating water supplies. Increased temperatures are warming the oceans and destroying coral reefs. The effects of climate change are impacting their livelihoods and threatening their homes, forcing some communities to leave their ancestral homelands and abandon their traditional way of life.
I have many Pacific Islander friends, hearing their stories of how climate change is impacting on their communities’ breaks my heart. Many Islanders are standing up and taking action and are responding to the affects of climate change in really inspiring and amazing ways. It is not fair that these people who have very low carbon footprints, and largely have not contributed to climate change causing greenhouse gases, must suffer first and worst. Australia as a wealthy nation with a carbon intense economy has the responsibility to take strong action on climate change both domestically and internationally, we need a short term emission reduction target of 40% by 2020.
July 20, 2009 at 3:21 am
Greetings from Pakistan,
I got the opportunity to visit Australia last week to participate in the Asia-Pacific Summit on Climate Change and was highly inspired of the commitment and motivation of number of people from Australia and other nineteen countries to sit together from different culture but on the same goal of creating awareness and eager to motivate responsible actors on climate crises.
According to Al Gore, both the Australia and US are in strong position to take firm actions on climate crises and I am also agreeing with his view that both the developed and developing countries should take actions on climate crises as It is a global issue and we should discourage the thinking that the pollution is created by rich countries so they are only responsible for actions. Only thing is to support poor countries on this as they are mostly affected by climate change.
I believe that you and other nation’ leaders would take responsible actions and would make the Copenhagen discussion into real benefits to make our planet safe from climate change effects and all vulnerable countries, including Pakistan are prevented from the effects of climate change. As an advocate on climate change, I will continue my efforts to create awareness on this issue here in Pakistan.
Asif