| Political Leaders Take KYOTOplus Pledge | 03 April 08 |
 Canadian House of Commons opposition party leaders Stéphane Dion, Gilles Duceppe and Jack Layton signed a pledge April 2, 2008 to fight climate change. The KYOTOplus pledge is part of a national petition campaign launched on Parliament Hill by Canadian environmental and public interest organizations."We have only two years to negotiate an agreement to avert a global catastrophe. Canadians want to be leaders, not laggards, in the fight against global warming," said Arthur Sandborn of Greenpeace Canada. KYOTOplus will gather the pledges of citizens and politicians who want Canada to take a leadership role on global warming - both domestically and internationally. It calls on elected Canadian politicians to "work to ensure that Canada honours its Kyoto commitment and sets a national target of cutting its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 25 per cent, relative to the 1990 level, by 2020." "The three opposition leaders are the first of what we hope will be a majority of Canadian politicians committing to doing the right thing on climate change. " said Emilie Moorhouse of Sierra Club Canada. Manitoba Wildlands is a sponsoring organization for KYOTOplus.  Take the KYOTOplus Citizen PledgeView the KYOTOplus Citizen Petition View Climate Action Network KYOTOplus campaign View April 2, 2008 Sierra Club Canada release View GreenPeace Canada KyotoPlus campaign Sources: Sierra Club Canada, Climate Action Network |
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