About Sign On

All over the world Greenpeace and many other groups and people are turning their attention to this issue as the most important priority for 2009. In New Zealand Greenpeace has launched the Sign On campaign. The aim is to provide a platform for New Zealanders to Sign On and by doing so say very clearly that they want to see NZ do the right thing and want Prime Minister John Key to go to Copenhagen and do the right thing.

 

Signing On is simple and easy and we hope that everyone who does Sign On will pick up the challenge to convince their friends and family to also Sign On.

 

Climate change is occurring at a speed previously not thought possible and we're running out of time to turn things around. There is a genuine sense of alarm amongst normally conservative climate scientists; they admit that they cannot keep pace with climate impacts already being observed.

 

We're at a point no one thought would happen for many years. We have a very narrow window of opportunity to act before it's too late.

 

Eminent climate scientists are now saying we only have about 10 years left to start rapidly reducing greenhouse gas emissions. If we don't, the Earth's climate is likely to reach a point of no return, and any action taken then will be too late to avert runaway climate change.

 

The United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen in December may be our last chance to avoid climate chaos.