GRETA THUNBERG WANTS IMMEDIATE ACTION ON THE CURRENT CLIMATE CRISIS

#FaceTheClimateEmergency

Greta Thunberg has highlighted the need to take immediate action on ecological and climate emergencies by writing a letter to the global leaders. This letter regarding the climate crisis was signed by many scientists, activists, and celebrities. It was sent to EU leaders as well as heads of states on Thursday.

The open letter on the climate crisis has been signed by many globally recognised faces such as Priyanka Chopra, Leonardo DiCaprio, Malala Yousafzai, Jane Fonda, Opal Tometi, Coldplay, Shawn Mendes, Margaret Atwood, Mark Ruffalo, and many others. The letter was written by Thunberg along with other climate activists as well as School Strike 4 Climate organisers like Adélaïde Charlier, Anuna de Wever van der Heyden, and Luisa Neubauer.

Greta tweeted the link to letter on the climate crisis on Thursday with the hashtag #FaceTheClimateEmergency. This letter urges the need for immediate and measurable action by using sentences like “The race to safeguard future living conditions for life on Earth as we know it needs to start today. Not in a few years, but now.”

It’s time to #FaceTheClimateEmergency

This is our open letter and demands to global leaders, signed by thousands of activists, scientists, representatives of civil society influencers.
We’ll keep collecting signatures and urge everyone to sign & share
->https://t.co/jq0Pwp5KZc pic.twitter.com/fNVhoTXUOj

— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) July 16, 2020

This letter on the climate crisis has mentioned some demands that “essential to our chance of avoiding a climate- and ecological disaster.” The demands include that all investments in fossil fuel exploration and extraction should end, and the fossil fuel subsidies should be eliminated as well. It also wants EU member states to make ecocide or extensive damaged caused to Earth’s ecological systems an international crime that needs to be presented at the International Criminal court. The climate crisis letter also demands transparency in reporting of total emissions in industries like shipping and international flights.

Another demand in the climate crisis letter is the allocation of “annual, binding carbon budgets based on the current best available science and the IPCC’s budget, which gives us a 66 percent chance of limiting the global temperature rise to below 1.5 °C.” These budgets must be as per the Paris Climate Agreement. The letter also calls for climate policies, which will help in reducing economic, gender, and racial inequality.

Greta Thunberg also said that the climate crisis and coronavirus crisis are two different things and cannot be addressed in the same manner. She called coronavirus as a tragedy that didn’t have any positive effect on the climate.