Climate: Failure is not a plan for Australia

The following is a call from our colleagues at Avaaz to all our Australian members and friends. As Architects for Peace we encourage you to sign the petition and/or to discuss the issue.
We have re-published the call as sent to us by Avaaz. If you are not in Australia, please visit Avaaz website as there are other petitions important to all of us.


Dear Australian Friends,

We have just a 5 day window to influence the final Garnaut climate change report – the report that looks likely to shape Rudd's climate policies for years to come.

If the PM adopts Professor Garnaut's draft report released last week, you can say goodbye to any claim on global leadership on climate change – not to mention the Great Barrier Reef and the Kakadu Wetlands. Garnaut's current draft gives up on a decent global deal to avert climate catastrophe before we've even tried.

The Garnaut Secretariat has agreed to accept public input into the final draft before next Monday, so let's take full advantage of the opportunity. Put your name to this petition, tell your friends -- and, if enough of us join together, we'll deliver with GetUp a massive notice to Professor Garnaut before the Monday 3pm deadline:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/no_surrender_garnaut

It is unlikely that the PM will announce deeper cuts than those included in the Garnaut Report - that's why it is so important that we demand Garnaut be as ambitious as possible. Up against some of the most ferocious lobbying this country has seen, we only have these few remaining days, to counter the voices of big business and the polluting industries.

We've all worked so hard to get to this point, let's not let the government stumble at this hurdle by getting bad advice. Garnaut wrongly believes that there isn't the political will to form a bold global consensus and so has recommended a 10% carbon pollution reduction target by 2020. Before he makes his final decision, let's leave him in no doubt that Australians are part of the global consensus, and we demand bold action on climate -- with the delivery of this petition:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/no_surrender_garnaut

Professor Garnaut agrees that without significant emission reductions we face catastrophic climate change, he just needs to be persuaded that the national and international will is there to take the necessary steps to avert it. That is one thing we can provide him with. Put your name to the petition now, and we'll deliver it to him direct before this small window closes.
http://www.avaaz.org/en/no_surrender_garnaut

With hope,

Brett, Ben, Iain, Alice, Paul, Graziela, Pascal, Ricken and Milena -- the Avaaz team

And the Architects for Peace team

Read the Garnaut draft report here.