Join our Paris Agreement 5th Birthday Postcard Action

Join parents and families from around the world in writing messages for climate action by sending a wish for the future to your countries leader, or to Antonio Guterres, Secretary General of the UN, or to Frans Timmermans, First Vice President of the European Commission


Click on the pictures below to download or share your postcard.

 

The Paris Agreement is turning five years old on the 12th of December, but we have no reason to celebrate. At the Paris Climate Conference in 2015, representatives from 196 countries agreed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It was decided to limit the rise of global temperatures to well below 2°C, but to endeavor to limit the increase to 1.5°C. However, in the last five years, emissions have continued to rise and the promises of our governments to combat the climate crisis have not been kept.

This anniversary is the perfect opportunity to ask our governments to make courageous decisions that will secure a liveable future for everybody on this earth.

Our goal is to send as many birthday postcards as possible to our leaders to remind them of their responsibility to ACT NOW and fulfill the Paris Agreement. You can send your postcard by mail or online. Posting our cards on social media will amplify the message. Let’s rock this special birthday!

 

Posting Your Card

  • Print and then fill in your wishlist on the reverse.
  • Add a stamp and an address or use our pre addressed postcards to the UN or EU
  • Take a photo with your card and upload to social media with the hashtags #MakeParisReal and #FightFor1Point5 and tag @antonioguterres
  • Pop it in the mail.
  • If you can’t post on social media please send your pictures here: parentsforfuture@riseup.net
  • Tell your friends to do the same.

 

Online action

  • Save the pic and make a post on your social media. You can also add a wishlist.
  • Use the hashtags #MakeParisReal and #FightFor1Point5 and tag @antonioguterres.
  • Tell your friends to do the same.
  • You can use the suggested posts to help craft your own, or you can send the premade tweet:
    Post on Twitter  
MakeParisReal

 

Suggested posts

Twitter

World leaders Twitter handles

The Paris Agreement is turning 5 on Dec 12. But after 5 yrs emissions go up not down. I support your best efforts @CFigueres @antonioguterres and call on all world leaders to #MakeParisReal @AlokSharma_RDG You can send a postcard to #FightFor1point5 here http://fffutu.re/0ASPLv

The Paris Agreement is 5 & my wish is for a future where my daughter is safe from severe weather events like bushfires & floods. ADD NAME please make climate policies that will make my wish true. #MakeParisReal You can send a postcard here http://fffutu.re/0ASPLv

The Paris Agreement is turning 5 on Dec 12. But after 5 yrs emissions go up not down. To #MakeParisReal I wish for world leaders to use defence spending to #FightFor1Point5 Thank-you for your best efforts @CFigueres @antonioguterres Send a postcard here http://fffutu.re/0ASPLv

The Paris Agreement is 5 & what better time to give the gift of real climate action. My wish is for a future that stays under 1.5C. I call on you ADD NAME to make my wish come true. #MakeParisReal #FightFor1Point5 Send a postcard from here http://fffutu.re/0ASPLv

The Paris Agreement is 5 but it’s the worst birthday ever. I support your best efforts @CFigueres @antonioguterres and call on Australian PM @ScottMorrison to #MakeParisReal #FightFor1Point5 @AlokSharma_RDG You can send a postcard here http://fffutu.re/0ASPLv

I’m sending a postcard to my PM/President ADD NAME because my children need urgent action to #MakeParisReal @ParentsForFutureG @CFigueres @AlokSharma_RDG You can send a postcard here http://fffutu.re/0ASPLv

Facebook

The Paris Agreement was supposed to solve climate change. Yet here we are, it’s 5th birthday, and we have no reason to celebrate as global greenhouse emissions go up, not down. It’s the worst birthday ever, and I am taking action by sending this postcard to my PM/President insert facebook page name and asking him/her to stop kicking the can down the road with empty promises and #MakeParisReal #FightFor1Point5 You can send a postcard too by visiting the Parents for Future Global website http://fffutu.re/0ASPLv Let’s see how many we can send!!

 

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