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Recorded April 20, 2020 during the online via Zoom Unite for Earth Day 2020.
Narration by Ms. Mellissa.
(Runtime: 2m 44s)
Part 1: Earth Day 2020 Message
Climate Action
This year we have two crises:
one is the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic,
the other is a slowly building disaster for our climate.
50 Years: 1970-2020
Building on the Earth Day Legacy
The first Earth Day in 1970 mobilized millions of Americans for the protection of the planet. On April 22, 1970, 20 million Americans — 10% of the U.S. population at the time — took to the street, college campuses, and hundreds of cities to protest environmental ignorance and demand a new way forward for our planet. The first Earth Day is credited with launching the modern environmental movement.
Earth Day is now recognized as the planet’s largest civic event and it led to passage of landmark environmental laws in the United States, including the Clean Air, Clear Water and Endangered Species Acts. Many countries soon adopted similar laws, and in 2016, United Nations chose Earth Day as the day to sign the Paris climate agreement into force.
“Despite that amazing success and decades of environmental progress, we find ourselves facing an even more dire, almost existential, set of global environmental challenges, from loss of biodiversity to climate change to plastic pollution, that call for action at all levels of government,” said Denis Hayes, the organizer of the first Earth Day in 1970 and Earth Day Network’s Board Chair Emeritus.
“Progress has slowed, climate change impacts grow, and our adversaries have become better financed,” said Earth Day Network president Kathleen Rogers. “We find ourselves today in a world facing global threats that demand a unified global response. For Earth Day 2020, we will build a new generation of environmentalist activists, engaging millions of people worldwide.”
Marking 50 Years of Action, from 1970 to 2020 and Beyond.
Earth Day Network's campaigns are intended to activate at least a billion people worldwide to meet Earth Day’s 2020 theme of climate action:
EARTHRISE, an intergenerational global movement for climate action that will mobilize millions around the world on April 22, 2020
The Great Global Cleanup, a worldwide campaign to remove billions of pieces of trash from neighborhoods, beaches, rivers, lakes, trails, and parks — reducing waste and plastic pollution, improving habitats, and preventing harm to wildlife and humans.
Earth Challenge 2020, the largest-ever global citizen science initiative, which will arm everyday individuals with the tools they need to report on the health and wellbeing of the environment, from water quality, to air quality, to the species around them.
Foodprints for the Future, a collaboration with individuals, communities, and partners across all sectors to address one of the largest contributors to climate change facing us today: our food system
Artists for the Earth, a global campaign bringing artists from around the world in every discipline, using the power of their art to express our common humanity.
Together, we can fight for a cleaner, safer, more just and sustainable world that protects and supports all of us.
April 22, 2020, is as a key moment for citizens, institutions and organizations everywhere to demonstrate our shared demand for bold, transformative change.
Climate Action
Doing What’s Needed
The theme for Earth Day 2020 is Climate Action.
The enormous challenges — but also the vast opportunities — of acting on climate change have distinguished the issue as the most pressing topic for the 50th anniversary. Climate change represents the biggest challenge to the future of humanity and the life-support systems that make our world habitable.
At the end of 2020, nations will be expected to increase their national commitments to the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change. The time is now for citizens to call for greater global ambition to tackle our climate crisis. Unless every country in the world steps up – and steps up with urgency and ambition — we are consigning current and future generations to a dangerous future.
Earth Day 2020 will be far more than a day. It must be a historic moment when citizens of the world rise up in a united call for the creativity, innovation, ambition, and bravery that we need to meet our climate crisis and seize the enormous opportunities of a zero-carbon future.
The world needs you — and your actions — for Earth Day 2020.
There’s so much you can do to help protect and restore our planet, from joining a cleanup or climate strike, to taking part in the world’s largest citizen science initiative, to hosting an event in your own community!
SDG#13 Climate Action Video
UN Sustainable Development Goals | Climate Action (13)
In this short video from Project Earth, they talk about the thirteenth goal of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which is all about raising awareness for climate change and global warming. Make sure to spread the word about sustainable development to your friends and family!
Click the button below to watch onYouTube or go to https://youtu.be/xivQ8zjqaRo.
(Runtime: 1m 19s)
Earth Day Goes Digital
On April 22, tune into Earth Day online.
The world’s largest civic event is going digital for the first time in its history. We’ll demand that leaders take science seriously, listen to their people and push for action at every level of society to stop the rising tide of climate change.
We can make a better world for everyone. Tell everyone you know about April 22 and join us at earthday.org as we flood the world with messages of hope, optimism and, above all — action.
WHERE WE STAND:
On Earth Day, April 22, 2020, we have two crises: One is the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. The other is a slowly building disaster for our climate.
We can, will and must solve both challenges. The world was not prepared for the novel coronavirus. But we still have time to prepare — in every part of the world — for the climate crisis.
The coronavirus pandemic does not shut us down. Instead, it reminds us of what’s at stake in our fight for the planet. If we don’t demand change to transform our planet and meet our climate crisis, our current state will become the new normal — a world where pandemics and extreme weather events span the globe, leaving already marginalized and vulnerable communities even more at risk.
No matter where you are, you can make a difference. And you’re not alone, because together, we EARTHRISE.
Together, we can SAVE the Earth:
Speak up
Act
Vote
Educate