WHAT IS PLANETCALL?
PlanetCall is an invitation to young people to become co-architects of their future. PlanetCall is about sustainable solutions, and our generation’s willingness to embrace a low-carbon future. Our world is made smaller by the Internet, giving us the power to connect with so many more people. This is exactly what is needed to create innovation and sustainable solutions.
On PlanetCall, you demonstrate your willingness to take part in building this sustainable future by doing three things: Signing the Declaration; Posting a Call; Forwarding on, asking all those you know to do the same.
WHY PARTICIPATE?
PlanetCall is endorsed by the U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the Danish Government, the host of COP15, the United Nations Climate Change Conference to be held in Copenhagen in December 2009. PlanetCall is a global and future-focused resource going beyond describing the problems by demonstrating our willingness to develop sustainable societies. The decision-makers want to know what we demand. Participate. Sign. Make a Call. Your voice will be heard.
WHO ARE WE?
PlanetCall was initiated by Monday Morning, Scandinavia’s leading independent think tank, and the Copenhagen Climate Council, an initiative working for an effective new global treaty in Copenhagen in December 2009. Five youth organizations drive PlanetCall (see Partner page). These organizations form the Executive Committee.
For more information, visit http://www.planetcall.org/
By signing the PlanetCall Declaration you will increase our chances of uniting 1 million global youth on climate change before the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December.
With your support and action, our chance of influencing decision-makers to safeguard our planet is much greater.
There are four additional things you can do now, if you haven’t already:
1. Post a “Call” about the solutions you want implemented to help combat climate change. Upload a photo of yourself next to your Call, becoming one of 1 million faces of hope.
2. Invite your friends. We need to mobilize tens of thousands of young people, so why not invite your friends and family to join us?
3. Answer our weekly poll question under “News” and help us better understand what young people value and what solutions they demand.
4. Check out the news items posted by organizations and encourage any group of which you are a member to engage in climate activity, to create an organizational profile, and to start sharing. And if helping to safeguard the planet isn’t motivation or prize enough, we have a number of prizes for those whose “Calls” are voted up, including iPods and solar chargers – not to mention the opportunity for your “Call” to be selected and presented at our COP15 event, at which the Declaration will be handed over.
Thanks for your support – you truly make a difference.
Best wishes,
Tim Flannery
Chair, Copenhagen Climate Council
