Dear Her Majesty The Queen,
Please could you excuse David and his friends in the Commonwealth from the last two days of the Jubilee celebrations. They have a very important meeting to attend in Rio. The Diamond Jubilee is a fantastic occasion and we hope you enjoy a wonderful celebration, but this meeting really is important. At the Rio+20 Earth Summit the leaders of the world will be working to protect the planet for future generations - and they need Mr Cameron, Mrs Patil, Mr Zuma and Mr Harper and the other Commonwealth leaders to join in.
It will be a shame for them to miss the end of the party, but this summit will hopefully ensure that we can have equally good parties in the future.
Yours sincerely,
www.planetbeforeprotocol.org
Background
1. World leaders needed at Rio+20 (June 4-6, 2012)
20 years after the first Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, world leaders are again called to duty, next June at Rio+20. We need them there to take action on creating a sustainable future and safeguard the planet for our children.
2. World leaders needed at Queen's Jubilee (June 2-5, 2012)
At the same time 54 Commonwealth leaders are expected to attend Queen Elisabeth's Diamond Jubilee celebrations in London. On October 26th, UK Prime Minister David Cameron already announced he will skip Rio+20. We fear his colleagues will follow his example, which would critically endanger a successful outcome of Rio+20.
3. Your Majesty, please help us solve this problem!
We believe the best way for Commonwealth leaders to pay their respects to the Queen is to ensure a safe future for our children at Rio+20. We therefore want to ask Her Majesty to allow Cameron and his colleagues to first attend the start of the Jubilee and then come to Rio. The world is counting on them!
30% of global population lives in the Commonwealth.
54 countries, representing all 6 continents, are Commonwealth members.
1.25bn people in the Commonwealth Big 4 live on less than $2 per day.
140m Bangladeshi live in the Ganges-delta, under constant threat of deadly floods.
1bn people go hungry every day, 70% of them are farmers.
100% of these people deserve representation by their leaders at Rio+20.
83% of statistics are made up on the spot.
Why RIO+20
Rio+20 is where our future is discussed.
Road to Rio+20 aims to motivate, inspire, engage and support young people to take action on issues of sustainable development and influence the outcomes of Rio+20, the UN Conference on Sustainable development.These global meetings started in the 1970's, focusing on endangered species protection and environmental policy; really putting the environment on the international agenda.In the 1980's it was the ozone layer and thanks to the Brundtland Report, Our Common Future; a clear definition was created for sustainable development.
"Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs".
The 1990's and 2000's saw climate change, biodiversity, forests and sustainable development being discussed. Now- climate change, green economy, water scarcity, food security, population, institutional frameworks and other issues need to be talked about and solved on an international level before it is to late.
Background
1. World leaders needed at Rio+20 (June 4-6, 2012)
20 years after the first Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, world leaders are again called to duty, next June at Rio+20. We need them there to take action on creating a sustainable future and safeguard the planet for our children.
2. World leaders needed at Queen's Jubilee (June 2-5, 2012)
At the same time 54 Commonwealth leaders are expected to attend Queen Elisabeth's Diamond Jubilee celebrations in London. On October 26th, UK Prime Minister David Cameron already announced he will skip Rio+20. We fear his colleagues will follow his example, which would critically endanger a successful outcome of Rio+20.
3. Your Majesty, please help us solve this problem!
We believe the best way for Commonwealth leaders to pay their respects to the Queen is to ensure a safe future for our children at Rio+20. We therefore want to ask Her Majesty to allow Cameron and his colleagues to first attend the start of the Jubilee and then come to Rio. The world is counting on them!
30% of global population lives in the Commonwealth.
54 countries, representing all 6 continents, are Commonwealth members.
1.25bn people in the Commonwealth Big 4 live on less than $2 per day.
140m Bangladeshi live in the Ganges-delta, under constant threat of deadly floods.
1bn people go hungry every day, 70% of them are farmers.
100% of these people deserve representation by their leaders at Rio+20.
83% of statistics are made up on the spot.