To coincide with the COP26 UN Climate Summit happening in Glasgow this year, Oxfam is running a virtual action around climate justice. That’s why we’re hoping all the OMBLES will join in their campaigning efforts on climate and, of course, each join the march themselves!!
One Minute Brief of the Day:
Create posters to encourage people to Join the virtual #WorldClimateMarch by pledging to march 2000 steps (=1.5km) for climate justice
Tweet your entries to @OneMinuteBriefs and @Oxfam with the hashtag #WorldClimateMarch
Remember to add your Twitter handle in the corner of your entries and feel free to tag in any celebrities or organisations you’d like to see get involved!
Prizes:
First Place: £200 cash!!
Second place: £100 cash!!
Context:
We are dangerously close to catastrophic tipping points in global temperature rises that will wreck even more lives around the world. We have a huge opportunity to do what it takes – right now in 2021 - to keep the vital goal of 1.5°C within reach. Therefore, to coincide with the COP26 UN Climate Summit happening in Glasgow this year, Oxfam and partner organisations are running a virtual action around climate justice; the World Climate March. Due to the ongoing Covid-19 situation, mass public gatherings in Glasgow and beyond are not expected to take place as they normally would - resulting in a large gap for large scale public mobilisation. But we still want our voices heard! The World Climate March will give people worldwide the opportunity to show they want world leaders to take climate action during COP26.
It takes 20 million steps to go around the world. So we aim to go around the world a few times with the 2000 steps people pledge to take showing that we are all connected globally in our fight for climate justice. We chose for 2000 steps/1.5km as it related to the maximum of 1.5 degrees warming that scientists say is necessary for the wellbeing of humanity, and world leaders agreed to in Paris.
So what do we ask people to do?
Step 1
Join the World Climate March by pledging to march 2000 steps (=1.5km) for climate justice
Step 2
Upload a video (or photo) of you, your family, your country marching for climate justice on the World Climate March website (to be launched 7th of September) and to make it your own by use of costumes, placards, etc.
OR
Upload a video of you marching for climate justice on your own social media channels and add the #WorldClimateMarch hashtag so the content will be automatically uploaded to the World Climate March website.
https://www.worldclimatemarch.org/
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