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The letters to the Editor pages are one of the most widely read sections of the paper. Help build awareness and Sign Ons by taking fifteen minutes to write a letter to your local paper.

Letter Writing Tips:

* Keep it Short and Simple. Maximum 200 words and use short sentences.
* Funny/clever letters are more likely to be published and to stick
    in people's minds.
* Your letter is most likely to get published if the letter is
    REACTING to articles or letters in the paper.
* Check your spelling, for grammar and clarity in your ideas.
* You must include the date, your name and address and day-time
    phone number, in case the newspaper wants to verify that you are
    the real author of the letter or wants to check details (usually
    they don't).

The points you want to stress are:

* NZ needs John Key to Sign On to a 40 per cent by 2020 emission reduction target on 1990 levels, as part of a global deal on climate. Time is running out to avoid catastrophic climate change, but we do still have a chance. World leaders failed us in Copenhagen but they have a chance to finish what they started this year at Mexico City in December.

* New Zealand needs to commit to 40% by 2020.

* Now more than ever we need people around the world to stand up and demand real action.

* Copenhagen may have failed, but that hasn’t made climate change go away. Climate change doesn’t wait for leaders to start leading; it carries on causing chaos. This is not one of those issues where you can say “oh we had a go at fixing it and failed, so we’ll just put it in the too-hard basket.” The failure of Copenhagen just means we must fight harder and better.

* The New Zealand Government must start taking the climate crisis seriously and help move the world towards a fair, ambitious and legally binding climate deal.

* As climate change becomes increasingly urgent, New Zealand needs to do its bit, and do what the science says is necessary to avoid catastrophe.

* Per capita New Zealand is one of the five worst greenhouse gas emitters in the developed world and has increased it’s emissions substantially since 1990.

* NZ’s valuable clean green reputation is at risk if we don’t start to take the threat of climate change seriously

* Modest and insufficient targets aren’t a pragmatic compromise between balancing the economy and the environment; it is a failure of leadership and ambition.

* Solving the climate crisis will help solve the economic crisis and there is a Global Green Revolution that’s transforming the global economy with clean energy and green jobs – lets not let that pass NZ by