Cape Town - If you want President Jacob Zuma to hear what you think the South African stance ought to be at the COP21 climate talk in Paris, try tweeting him.
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has set up a website where the public can select the leader of their country and send him or her a message about what they would like to see emerging from the climate talks.
“Your tweet can make all the difference. Share it now and empower your leader to act today for a better tomorrow. Together, we can make climate change history,” WWF said on Tuesday.
WWF described the climate talks, which began on Monday and will close on December 11, as “one of the biggest climate conferences of all times and here’s why: climate change isn’t some distant, intangible thing; we are feeling its effects now. COP21 marks a defining moment for the global community to come together and collectively show their resolve towards ‘changing climate change’.”
Around 40 000 delegates from 195 countries are attending the Paris talks where they hope to agree on an accord to cut global greenhouse gas emissions sufficiently to keep average temperature increases below 2°C.
World leaders from 147 countries are attending the talks.
Visit http://www.tweetyourleader.org
Cape Times