The Biggest Day of Climate Action the World Has Seen
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Participate this Saturday, October 24th in a global event like none before.
Why does USC Canada care so much about climate change? Because small scale farmers, who feed the world, are among the most vulnerable to climate change – especially in the global South. Yet, through their work with biodiversity, seeds, and soils, they are most able to provide the answers that can help us respond to climate change.
This Saturday, people around the world are taking action to tell global leaders to put some guts into the global climate treaty to be signed in December in Copenhagen. This grassroots action is taking place in 171 countries around the planet, including major events in Canada.
In Ottawa people are hoping to Fill the Hill. In Vancouver, they will line Cambie Bridge. Many of these events will be broadcast in Times Square in New York City. Find an action to join in where you live. Also check out what our friends at the Climate Action Network are doing.
350.org is behind this event – an organization co-founded by Bill McKibben who wrote the first book on climate change aimed at a general audience: The End of Nature. 350 is the number that leading scientists say is the safe upper limit for concentration of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere, measured in parts per million (ppm). We are now at 390 ppm! We need to get back to 350!
We encourage you to visit 350.org and to check out their short video to find out more. Most of all, we encourage you, as a global citizen, to participate in an event this Saturday and be the kind of change the world needs.
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USC Canada
was founded by
Dr Lotta Hitschmanova in 1945. Our award-winning Seeds of Survival program promotes vibrant family farms, strong rural communities, and healthy ecosystems around the world.
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