Brisbane City Council - Declare a Climate Emergency!
The Lord Mayor and Councillors of the City of Brisbane
We are in a Climate Emergency, with climate change impacts already
killing people and destroying ecosystems. The scariest thing about this
is that most levels of government are not doing what is necessary to
reverse this emergency despite knowing what the solutions are.
The
first ray of hope is coming from the local councils in Australia and
overseas that are declaring a Climate Emergency. They are developing
action plans to do the many things they can do at the local level and
are engaging their communities in community-wide climate emergency
action.
Call on the Brisbane City Council to be the first capital
city in Australia to declare a Climate Emergency and set a precedent
for other cities and other levels of government to follow!
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To:
The Lord Mayor and Councillors of the City of Brisbane
From:
[Your Name]
We are deeply concerned about the threat that climate change poses ourselves, our children and our grandchildren, as well as future generations.
We the undersigned, do hereby petition the Brisbane City Council to:
• declare that we face a Climate Emergency that requires urgent action from all Australian Capital Cities, and
• instigate an action plan to immediately reduce carbon emissions as quickly as possible within the zone of the Brisbane City Council and to establish programs to draw down carbon from the Earth's atmosphere, and
• pressure other capital city councils in Australia to take similar actions immediately to mitigate the Climate Emergency.