The Amazon needs climate action NOW!

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http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/climate-change/forests_for_climate/take-action-write-to-lula

The Amazon needs climate action NOW!

Last month our climate scored a big victory in Poland - where the Prime Minister Donald Tusk agreed to personally attend the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen. Let's make this month's victory a Brazilian one.

President Lula and all other Heads of State need to join PM Tusk in Copenhagen this December, but Lula also needs to put the breaks on a bad land bill that is about to become Brazilian law. If he passes it in coming days, unscrupulous companies that have illegally occupied Amazon land will get a legal seal of approval. It will effectively give a green light to loggers and land grabbers in up to 67 million hectares of the Amazon and put it in further jeopardy.

This is the moment to ask President Lula to act.

We need to pressure Lula to stop these laws and commit to zero deforestation.

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/climate-change/forests_for_climate/take-action-write-to-lula

Take Action: Write to Lula.

In early June, the Brazilian Congress amended and approved a bill, originally introduced to grant land title rights to 300,000 properties that have been established illegally across approximately 67 million hectares of public land in the Amazon.

The rules set by the Provisional Measure (MP) number 458, will add pressure to the Amazon and make it even more vulnerable to deforestation. The bill, which awaits President Lula's signature, may be perceived as an open invitation for the invasion of public lands in the region.

Read more about it and take action.

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  1. Alisha Nickols

    Alisha Nickols Stockton, CA @ 05:47PM PT Jun 22
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  2. Joycey Berry

    Joycey Berry Canton, NC @ 07:05PM PT Jun 18

    Thank you for making the pledge "The Amazon needs climate action NOW!"

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  3. a k

    a k holmen, WI @ 05:23PM PT Jun 17
    Pledge fulfilled Jun 17, 2009!

    Write to Lula for the Amazon and a global climate deal

    Thanks anita kofta!

  4. starvin marvin

    starvin marvin Hooterville, North Dakota, and Taffee, Minnesota and Big Beavers, OR @ 02:34PM PT Jun 17
    Pledge fulfilled Jun 17, 2009!

    But if they have zero stripping of Amazon land where will McDonald's raise there cows so everyone can have cheap fast food hamburgers?  Where will the Ham-burglar live?  Where will Ronald Mc Donald build his next vacation home?

  5. Soodle Billy

    Soodle Billy Co.Dublin, Ireland @ 11:42AM PT Jun 17
    Pledge fulfilled Jun 17, 2009!

    pledge Completed :)

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    B F Harmony, ME @ 11:17AM PT Jun 17
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    B F Harmony, ME @ 11:15AM PT Jun 17

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