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Tuesday 26 November 2019
Climate Action Aruba invites you to the park

ORANJESTAD — Young people all
over the world are walking out of
school again on November 29th to
ask world leaders to step up and
take more climate action. No more
promises and plans but concrete Their demands are:
emergency measures is what they • Lower the emission of green-
request. Climate Action Aruba house-gasses by retreating
joins the global movement to push from fossil fuels, towards car-
governments to bringing change. bon-free energy sources. Fol-
low the Paris Agreement and
Join them for a peaceful get- IPCC report. Lower the carbon-
together at Wilhelminapark from emissions with 50% by 2030 and
1-3PM in support of the young net zero emisions by 2050. Stay
school strikers. Show that people below 1,5°C warming of global
of Aruba care. People of all ages temperatures.
are welcome as this not only con- • Protection of biodiversity, of
cerns the younger generation, but nature
all of us. Bring a sign/banner, with • Unite behind the science and
your reason(s) for joining us. If you act upon it
are not able to come, you can
also show your support by holding Aruba needs protection
a sign with your intention, mention Aruba is under threat too because
Aruba on it and post it on #Cli- of Climate Change and a lack of
mateActionAruba). As individuals protection of its environment. Mul-
we stand alone, together we can tiple plant and animal species are
make a change. breakdown. 2030 is in only 10 Young people make up more than in danger of extinction or have
years’ time, a small window, and it half of the global population. This gone extinct already. Warming of
New generation’s concern is closing. By the end of the century new generation is growing up with the ocean causes more and stron-
There is a deep and worldwide temperatures will have risen by 4°C the Climate Crisis and will have to ger hurricanes. Ocean-acidifica-
concern about the future. Human- if no changes are made, this is by a deal with it for the rest of their lives. tion, dying corals, rising sea-levels
ity is currently causing mass ex- conservative estimate. Despite that fact, most are not in- and flooding are a threat to peo-
tinction of species and the global The next UN climate summit will be cluded in the local and global de- ple and environment. The future is
climate system is at the brink of a held in Madrid from 2nd -13th of cision-making processes since they at stake.
catastrophic crisis. The devastat- December. World leaders are get- are not allowed to vote yet. Of course we as individuals have
ing impacts are already felt by mil- ting together again to talk about to take up responsibility by making
lions of people around the globe. climate change and the ways to They are the voiceless future of changes in our own lives, but Aru-
A recent report of the Intergovern- curb the Climate Crisis. The last de- humanity. That is why every Friday ba as a country has to do its share
mental Panel on Climate Change cades all the talks and plans have young people all over the world too.
(IPCC) states that by the year 2030, yielded little results. Targets are set are organizing strikes, demanding Last September the first Climate
if we continue to do business-as- too low to try and stay under 2° C of urgent Climate Action. No more Action Aruba was organized to
usual, we will likely pass a tipping warming, and these are not even promises but actual and urgent support the young climate strik-
point and we might no longer be closely met. Not enough concrete action. They are fighting for their ers worldwide and to express their
able to stop irreversible climate action is being taken. future. concerns about Aruba, asking for
more concrete Climate Action
from our government(s) and busi-
nesses. More than 600 people al-
ready participated, on different lo-
cations all over Aruba. Individuals
but also schools, organizations and
businesses joined, each with their
own reasons why they feel more
Climate Action is urgently needed.
Friday November 29th Climate Ac-
tion Aruba is organizing its second
action to convince Aruba’s leaders
to take a more active approach to
this crisis. Aruba has a lot of NGO’s,
organizations and individuals that
share a common goal: protecting
the environment, our nature and
its fauna and flora, all in their own
different ways. What if we would
come together and unite, find
our common ground: the love for
Aruba and the concerns we have
about climate change and the ef-
fects it is having on our way of life,
our fauna and flora.
Find more info on #ClimateAc-
tionAruba #350.org #FridaysForFu-
ture or #Climatestrike q