Cynthia Leung started this petition to U.S. House of Representatives and 1 other Time is running out for our planet. And as the Amazon “the lungs of our planet” burn before our eyes, we must act now to fight climate change or doom this and future generations into an age of extinction.  The next generation may never see the Amazon rainforest, coral reefs, or a polar bear.   But the spectacular biodiversity existing on our planet, our home, is more than just beautiful, it is what keeps us alive. Our destruction of ecological life support systems will literally kill us all. My name is Cynthia Leung and I am a high school student from Brooklyn. I first started getting involved with the movement during the UN's High-Level Political Forum when I learned about the linkages that climate change can have with multiple important topics. Having the Climate Change Summit in the New York UN Headquarters is extremely important for the American climate action movement. In fact, since the summit will be in New York, we need to utilize our voices to make sure our message is heard loud and clear by world leaders in September. Being one of many youth climate activists proves that young people will continue to advocate and protest until we have definite plans for climate change because our futures are at risk.  My generation and millions of young people from all over the world, are skipping school, university or work, taking to the streets and protesting your inaction on climate change. The time to act is now and we have one month to add our voices to call for strong, unified climate action from our government.   Add your voice today if you want to hear our world leaders’ plans to mitigate emissions by 2020, and dramatically reduce emissions to reach net-zero emissions by mid-century! This September, world leaders will unite in NYC for the UN Climate Change Summit. And young climate leaders from around the globe will be there to deliver the world’s biggest call-to-action! We demand that they come up with bold, ambitious, definite and effective climate and environmental action plans. Great-Britain and Ireland have already headed our call and declared a climate emergency. We urgently need more countries to stand up to protect their people, animals, and OUR planet.   Let’s face the truth. Radical transformational change is imperative in safeguarding our future and future generations. IPCC’s 2018 report emphasizes that we need major transformation, especially since we are now off track in limiting climate change to 1.5 degrees celsius. And global political and business leaders hold the key to the transformational change we urgently need. We, the youth of today, are holding them accountable through direct action and we expect the powerful to take responsibility to deliver a sustainable future for all. World leaders should no longer ignore tens of thousands on the streets. In the moments leading up to September and the meeting of the powerful,.

1. Cynthia Leung
started this petition to
U.S. House of Representatives
and
1 other
Time is running out for our planet.
And as the Amazon
“the lungs of our planet”
burn before our eyes, we must act now to fight climate change
or doom this and future generations into an age of extinction.
The next generation may never see the Amazon rainforest, coral
reefs, or a polar bear.
But the spectacular biodiversity existing on our planet, our
home, is more than just beautiful, it is what keeps us alive.
Our destruction of ecological life support systems will literally
kill us all.
My name is Cynthia Leung and I am a high school student from
Brooklyn. I first started getting involved with the movement
during the UN's High-Level Political Forum when I learned
about the linkages that climate change can have with multiple
important topics. Having the Climate Change Summit in the
New York UN Headquarters is extremely important for the
American climate action movement.
In fact, since the summit will be in New York, we need to
utilize our voices to make sure our message is heard loud and
clear by world leaders in September.
Being one of many youth climate activists proves that young
people will continue to advocate and protest until we have

2. definite plans for climate change because
our futures are at risk.
My generation and millions of young people from all over the
world, are skipping school, university or work, taking to the
streets and protesting your inaction on climate change.
The time to act is now and we have one month to add our voices
to call for strong, unified climate action from our government.
Add your voice today if you want to hear our world leaders’
plans to mitigate emissions by 2020, and dramatically reduce
emissions to reach net-zero emissions by mid-century!
This September, world leaders will unite in NYC for the UN
Climate Change Summit.
And young climate leaders from around the globe will be there
to deliver
the world’s biggest call-to-action! We demand that they come
up with bold, ambitious, definite and effective climate and
environmental action plans.
Great-Britain and Ireland have already headed our call and
declared a climate emergency.
We urgently need more countries to stand up to protect their
people, animals, and OUR planet.
Let’s face the truth. Radical transformational change is
imperative in safeguarding our future and future generations.
IPCC’s 2018 report emphasizes that we need major
transformation, especially since we are now off track in limiting
climate change to 1.5 degrees celsius. And global political and
business leaders hold the key to the transformational change we
urgently need.
We, the youth of today, are holding them accountable through
direct action and we expect the
powerful to take responsibility to deliver a sustainable future

3. for all.
World leaders should no longer ignore tens of thousands on the
streets. In the moments leading up to September and the
meeting of the powerful, we’ll mobilize internationally to get
world leaders to take climate action! When leaders of the world
unite in New York City in September, we will be there and we
will deliver, the world’s most signed call-to-action! Until then,
we are watching them carefully. We will not go down without a
fight. We will keep rising until governments will act. And when
September comes, we will be there!
This petition is part of an international campaign. You find all
petitions here:
www.change.org/allinforclimateaction