CLIMATE EMERGENCY COUNTDOWN: Click image above for full poster.

From the dire warnings of the IPCC and other reports, to the imperative for an EMERGENCY ACTION agreement at the 2015 Paris Climate Summit via New York City and Lima 2014.

Speakers, videos, Q & A, FREE admission, food and refreshments.

Sunday, June 22, 1-5pm, Metro Hall, 55 John St King & John, room 308.

Please join us for an informative afternoon of frank, heartfelt presentations on the climate change EMERGENCY that will convey vital facts and insights about the latest dire reports and the life-or-extinction urgency to mobilize ahead of critical, fast-approaching international climate negotiation summits this September in New York City and December in Lima, Peru.

Numerous major climate reports especially the epic 2013/2014 IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment AR5 have warned that:

Human-caused global warming and climate change from heat-trapping fossil fuel emissions pose a clear, present, accelerating danger that has ALREADY resulted in unprecedented global-scale impacts everywhere, with financial costs estimated to be $1.2 trillion dollars a year and rising.

EMERGENCY international action must be taken FAST because, on our current, business as usual trajectory, catastrophic, irreversible, runaway threats to civilization, humanity and most life are projected to ensue over the next few decades, and could become committed to / locked in over the next few years.

The most important International Climate Change Conference ever COP21 will be held in Paris in late 2015, with the goal of finally reaching international agreement on a global pact to confront the climate crisis.

Leading up to Paris, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called a momentous climate summit in New York City this September 23rd, intended to help catalyze momentum and pressure action. Civil society groups plan to organize a massive turnout in the tens of thousands on September 20th, 21st and 22nd.

This will be followed by the crucial annual international Climate Change Conference COP20 in Lima, Peru, from December 1-12 of THIS YEAR, at which all the key parameters must be determined for there to be any hope of a signed 2015 agreement in Paris.

So it's New York to Lima to Paris, or bust!

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The purpose of our afternoon mini-conference is:

1 To launch an action alert communication initiative to inform and pressure all participants in the UN COP Conference of the Parties negotiation process to make a meaningful agreement at Paris.

2 To summarize the vital information in the IPCC 5th assessment and other recent climate reports, and expose their little-known or publicized shortcomings / dramatic underestimates. How bad do they indicate the situation to be, and what do they miss?

3 To communicate the importance of the next 18 months with particular emphasis on the next 6 months, when so much of the eventual outcome of international negotiations will be determined.

4 To outline the true extent and negligence of continued direct and indirect subsidies almost $2 trillion per year to fossil fuel corporations, to explain the necessity for the rapid phase out of subsidies, and to call for the reallocation of these subsidies to speed up our transition to perpetual non-burning renewable 'zero carbon' energy sources such as wind, solar, geothermal, tidal, wave, micro-hydro.

5 To critique and condemn the current inequality and oppression-based social / economic paradigm and the faux-green privatization / commodification of life / nature.

6 To propose the best, most rapid and achievable action responses we can demand and expect from the UN climate convention process through to a signed Paris agreement in 2015.

Confirmed speakers / presenters:

- Dr. Peter Carter: Climate Emergency Institute, Expert Reviewer, IPCC Fifth Assessment Synthesis Report

- Julie Johnston: GreenHeart Education, former Coordinator of Environment and Sustainability Programs, Upper Canada College

- Glenn MacIntosh: Founder, ecoSanity, Climate Crisis Compilations, CON JOB blog series

Sponsored by all above and organized by ecoSanity, http://www.ecosanity.org/

Contact Glenn MacIntosh: infoatecoSanity.org, 416-861-1303.