A new message from Lucy to Sign On Supporters including a new photo of Lucy with orange/red hair. We've seen Lucy with black, brown, red, blond and now orange/red. Lucy had to rush from the set of Spartacus to the meeting...with wig and all.
A huge thank-you to everyone who came along to the Auckland, Wellington,
Christchurch and Dunedin target consultations in the past few days. Hundreds
have turned up at each meeting.
If you've been unable to attend your local meeting, please
submit a short statement via the Sign On website, which we'll display to
Environment Minister, Nick Smith in a public way. You can also attend the
"online" consultation meeting on Monday 20th July (details below).
I had to rush to the Auckland meeting straight from work on set, wig and all. I
was glad to be there. It was fascinating, frustrating and dramatic. I highly
recommend it as a night out!
To Nick Smith, we delivered a very strong message that a 40% carbon reduction by
2020 is the only acceptable goal. This is in line with what scientists are now
telling us is the minimum target for staving off global catastrophe.
For about 40 minutes Dr Smith was reasonably impressive with his presentation
and bar graphs and then he dropped what for me was a clanger. He responded to
one question that no, he would not oppose digging up Happy Valley in order to
sell coal to India because, let's face it, they'd just get it from somewhere
else! I am paraphrasing but that was the gist of it.
It seems that this government does have a moral compass. And on it Business
points North. Thus, it is VITAL that as many business people as possible impress
upon our minister and our international negotiators, Tim Groser and Adrian Macey,
the opportunities that green business models will afford us. Tell us your
success stories.
Tell them what degradation of the environment and climate will cost your
business.
And tell your friends. We need all hands on deck. If Germany and Scotland can
set emission reduction goals of 40% and 42%, we can too.
We have a great deal of know how. What we lack presently is political will and
policy. Let's give our Prime Minister the mandate to seek the necessary 40%
reduction by 2020.
No one ever won gold by setting the bar at a comfortable height.
We can do this!
Yours truly,
Lucy Lawless
PS - here are the details of the online target consultation on Monday 20th.
Visit http://www.r2.co.nz/20090720 from 7.30pm on Monday 20th July for an online
video conference with Environment Minister, Nick Smith. Questions can be
submitted in advance at 2020target@mfe.govt.nz
Government climate change target online consultation
TAKE ACTION: Couldn't make it to the meeting?
If you couldn't make it to the meeting you can still submit a short statement
via the Sign On website.
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For video and for more information about Lucy's involvement with the
Sign On Campagin go to the
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