This is Al Gore’s Open Letter to world leaders, calling for action on climate change. The ad is timed to appear ahead of COP21, the United Nations Climate Change conference in Paris next month. Viewers can help amplify the message by signing onto the Climate Reality petition.
“Will our film make a difference? Maybe not,” Bullock says. “But if it’s part of a weight or landslide of requests from people that build pressure on world leaders, then I am happy to throw our symbolic straw on the camel’s back.”
What is COP21 and why is it important? CNBC has a Special Report:
Described by its organisers as “crucial”, COP21 will see the world’s leaders, scientists, pressure groups and United Nations agencies attempt to thrash out, “a new international agreement on the climate, applicable to all countries, with the aim of keeping global warming below 2 degrees Celsius.”
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“With global mean temperature rising above 2 degrees centigrade, the risk for triggering large-scale changes in the Earth system, so-called tipping points, increases disproportionately and with it the very possibility to adapt to a changing environment,” Daniel Klingenfeld, head of director’s staff at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, told CNBC via email.
Other ways you can help:
Donating to transparent organisations like the Rainforest Trust.
Check out other high impact organisations on lists like this and this.