350.org has teamed up with over a dozen other citizen advocacy groups to organize a twitter storm event to coincide with the week of the G-20 summit, followed by Rio+20:
As delegates from around the world fly into town for the Rio+20 Earth Summit, the largest environmental gathering in world history, 350.org is teaming up with over a dozen environmental groups for a major “Twitterstorm,” a 24-hour push beginning on June 18 to get as many tweets as possible for the hashtag #endfossilfuelsubsidies.
Every year, governments around the world give nearly $1 trillion in handouts and tax-breaks to the fossil fuel industry instead of using the money for sustainable development, clean energy initiatives, reducing the deficit, or any number of better initiatives. Three years ago, the G20 countries committed to ending these subsidies but there has been no action since.
The #EndFossilFuelSubsidies twitter storm is timed to coincide with this year’s G20 meeting which will begin in Los Cabos, Mexico on Monday. Two days later, over a hundred heads of state will join 50,000 people at the Rio+20 Earth Summit. The synchronicity of the meetings provides the perfect opportunity for world leaders to put their money where their mouths are and provide a clear plan to cut subsidies to the fossil fuel industry.
So, ready – set – tweet! Click here to get started.
I like the title of our blog post but I do not think that campaign poster image is big enough. 🙂
Sorry! At T+8 hours (nearly) into this Twitterstorm I am getting a little silly; and so are my Tweets.
News just in from The Guardian newspaper (via Twitter of course): Activists hail success of Twitter storm against fossil fuel subsidies
High-profile support for #EndFossilFuelSubsidies campaign helps it to top trending topic in US and second place globally.
LOL – I take it you like the graphic!
Thanks for dropping by, Martin, in the middle of a twitterstorm no less! I’m in the middle of a week long course on citizen advocacy, so spent most of my day offline, but did manage a few tweets on and off. It seems to have gone well, as the article above indicates.