UK’s leading Christian relief agencies Tearfund and Christian Aid members, and people who care about climate change are expected to participate in the event, to ‘be counted’, and to demand politicians take action.
The event will be part of the wider ‘I Count’ campaign to stop climate chaos, launching at the beginning of October.
According to Tearfund, people will be travelling to the event from across the UK in ‘ingenious low-carbon ways.’
Ashok Sinha, Director of Stop Climate Chaos, said: “Climate change is affecting us all, now. We urge everyone who is concerned to join us on Saturday 4th November and ‘be counted’. Whether you’re a gardener suffering with unpredictable weather, a parent worried for your child’s future, someone concerned about drought and famine in Africa or a nature-lover watching our native species disappear, ‘I Count’ is an opportunity for us all to come together and make our voices heard.”Everyone who signs up to the campaign via text message or by logging onto the campaign website (to be launched in October at www.icount.org.uk) will be counted ‘virtually’ on the day. A live counter will clock up those in the Square and those who care but couldn’t come.
The ‘I Count’ event precedes the next round of climate change negotiations in Nairobi, Kenya, that start on 6th November. The UK Government will be at the table, as the ‘I Count’ campaign will call on them to provide action for justice in the UK and the world.
Stop Climate Chaos members include Christian Aid, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, Islamic Foundation for Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Oxfam, People & Planet, RSPB, Tearfund, UNISON, The Wildlife Trusts, National Federation of Women’s Institutes and WWF.
