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Sust-mar interupts the dog days of summer for a special plea ... ... if you have ever considered writing your MP about Kyoto, please do it now. Indications are that the decision will be made in the next few days. Canada's adoption of the Protocol is vital to its global implementation. If you have just five minutes, go to http://www.davidsuzuki.org Use their online system to send a free fax to your MP and the PM. If you can spare half an hour, dash off a letter to your MP. Use Wildcanada.net to get his or her fax number. Here are more details. And then, back to your barbecue ... ~paul :) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Wildcanada.net" <wild@wildcanada.net> MP's need your support to ratify Kyoto Wildcanada.net Action Alert -- 075 Saturday August 10, 2002 Synopsis A group of backbench Liberal Members of Parliament is pushing the Prime Minister to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. Contact your Liberal Member of Parliament, or any Liberal Members of Parliament in your region before they leave for their summer retreat starting August 16. This important effort by MPs underscores the sense of urgency in Canada and around the world to take action on climate change. It demonstrates the effectiveness of thousands of concerned Canadians -- like you -- persistently urging their elected officials to ratify Kyoto. Please urge Liberal MPs to support the call inside the party to adopt the Kyoto Protocol without further changes. Your Member of Parliament's constituency address, phone number and fax number can be found at the end of this Action Alert. Background A group of backbench Liberal MPs is circulating a letter amongst their Liberal colleagues in the House of Commons and the Senate urging the Prime Minister to ratify the 1997 international climate change treaty before the end of the year, without demanding further changes. The letter drafted by MP John Godfrey -- to whom Wildcanada.net recently presented an Eight for the Earth award to for his work on the Species at Risk Act -- states: "Never before has the scientific community reached such broad consensus on the causation of an international crisis. Never before has the world faced such a vast economic, environmental, and social challenge of its own creation that is within its means to address." "Canada has negotiated numerous favourable compromises from the international community to allow us to meet our reduction commitments in a flexible and affordable way. Ratification should not be contingent on securing clean energy export credits." "If we turn our back on the world we will lose faith both domestically and internationally. We are convinced that climate change will be one of the defining issues of our generation, that we have reached the hour of decision, and that it is the duty of Parliament to safeguard and enhance the present and future interests of our nation." Currently, under pressure from Alberta and large corporate polluters, Prime Minister Chrétien is trying to re-open negotiations to get so-called "clean energy' export credits. This loophole would allow Canada to count natural gas exported to the United States as a greenhouse gas reduction in Canada, despite the fact that burning natural gas creates greenhouse gas emissions. Moreover, Canada is unwilling to debit emissions from some of the dirtiest forms of energy in the world that are being aggressively promoted, namely oil from tar sands and coal. Canada is one of the largest per capita emitters of greenhouse gases in the world. Polls have consistently shown that eight out of ten Canadians right across the country support ratifying the Kyoto Protocol. A recent Financial Post poll found that 57% of Canadian business executives believe the Kyoto target can be achieved with little economic disruption. For more information on the politics, economics and science of the Kyoto Protocol: http://www.davidsuzuki.org/Climate_Change/Kyoto/ Contact your MP at the address below. If your Member of Parliament is a Liberal, it's important that they hear from you before the Liberal Caucus retreat on the 16th of August. New: Donate to Wildcanada.net on-line at http://www.wildcanada.net Please forward this message to your friends. For more information on Wildcanada.net, or if this has been forwarded to you and you would like to sign up for Wildcanada.net's free provincial and national programs, visit http://www.wildcanada.net. To unsubscribe visit http://www.wildcanada.net/unsubscribe. -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- SUST-MAR TIP: messages to sust-mar must be plain text format (no HTML) -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-
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