WE MUST MAKE A CHOICE TO TAKE A CHANCE OR THINGS WILL NEVER CHANGE!

PLEASE SUPPORT THIS ONLINE PETITION CAMPAIGN.

On the occasion of the Asia-Pacific Climate Week (“APCW”) 2021 organised by UNFCCC, World Bank, UNEP, UNDP, UNESCAP, Asian Development Bank, and Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Diet to Save Earth is pleased to launch its first advocacy campaign of e-petitioning 19 G20 nations to sign the Intergovernmental Declaration on Children, Youth and Climate Action for which the joint custodians are UNICEF, YOUNGO, and the Children’s Environmental Rights Initiative conducted under the auspices of the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment.

The Declaration represents an opportunity for UN member states which are not yet signatories to commit to the adoption of a comprehensive framework to rectify the widespread omission of children and youth from climate policies, strategies and plans across different tiers of government.

The URL of the respective webpage on the online petition for each of the 19 G20 nations is as follows.

Argentina https://bit.ly/DTSEPetitionAR
Australia https://bit.ly/DTSEPetitionAU
Brazil https://www.change.org/DSTEPetitionBR
Canada https://www.change.org/DTSEPetitionCA
China https://www.change.org/DTSEPetitionCN
France https://www.change.org/DTSEPetitionFR
European Union https://bit.ly/DTSEPetitionEU
Germany https://www.change.org/DTSEPetitionDE
India https://www.change.org/DTSEPetitionIN
Indonesia https://bit.ly/DTSEPetitionID
Italy https://bit.ly/DTSEPetitionIT
Japan https://bit.ly/DTSEPetitionJP
Republic of Korea https://bit.ly/DTSEPetitionKR
Russia https://bit.ly/DTSEPetitionRU
Saudi Arabia https://bit.ly/DTSEPetitionSA
South Africa https://bit.ly/DTSEPetitionZA
Turkey https://bit.ly/DTSEPetitionTR
United Kingdom https://bit.ly/DTSEPetitionUK
United States https://bit.ly/DTSEPetitionUS

“Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilisation” to quote Mahatma Gandhi. Please sign this petition as your personal testimony of operationalising this beautiful saying by Gandhi. The Declaration is available at UNICEF’s webpage with the URL of https://www.unicef.org/environment-and-climate-change/climate-declaration for your reference.

Signing the petition is only the first step in this campaign. The next step is to invite members of your personal network to sign the petition. The final step is to invite your electoral representatives and leaders of your local governments, to sign the petition. The objective of this campaign is to focus first on securing all G20 countries as signatories to create a ripple effect so that eventually all UN member states will sign the Declaration by the end of 2022.

Diet to Save Earth (DTSE) as a partner of YOUNGA Forum 2021 will be sending a delegation of its members to the event. The DTSE member who secures the largest number of signatures for the online petition of a particular G20 nation will be nominated as a DTSE delegate to attend the event free of charge.

To become a DTSE member, all you need to do is to subscribe to our Youtube channel at https://bit.ly/DTSEYoutube and to join our private Facebook group at https://bit.ly/DTSEFBGroup.

Let’s put our Earth where our mouth is!