It’s Blog Action Day!

Nearly 8,000 blogs have already signed up for Blog Action Day 2009.   If you looked at one blog every five seconds, it would take take over eleven hours to get through all the participants!

At the end of this year the United Nations is sponsoring a major summit on climate change where world leaders will gather and try to reach an international agreement on avoiding the worst consequences of the climate crisis.  The negotiations in Copenhagen will be the biggest and most important world gathering ever addressing climate change and is the culmination of a series of preparatory meetings over the past year held at locations around the world.  That’s why groups like the nonprofit organizations that have come together to form the (featured Blog Action Day partner) Tck Tck Tck campaign are pushing to express public support for an “ambitious, fair, and binding” agreement in Copenhagen.

Last week in New York world leaders spent one day at the United Nations General Assembly meeting talking about climate change and right now representatives are meeting in Bangkok trying to make progress on draft agreements and work out as many differences as possible before December.  Right now, as world leaders prepare for Copenhagen, is clearly a particularly important time for the people of the world to speak loudly about the need for lasting solutions to climate change. Of course, the bottom line is that when it comes to finding and implementing those solutions, the sooner the better.

So today I’d like to offer some links and resources where you can learn more about the upcoming negotiations in Copenhagen and events leading up to them:

•  Official UN climate change site
•  globalwarming.change.org the blog focusing on climate change from the folks running Blog Action Day
•  Tck Tck Tck campaign central site
•  Coverage from a civil society perspective on this week’s Bangkok climate negotiations
•  Recap of global action last week from avaaz.org members including a phone conversation with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown about Copenhagen

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