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Pathway to Paris highlights

9th December 2015/in Frontpage Article, Public Engagement, Team /by Jeremy Murphy

Pathway to Paris is a collection of artists, activists, academics, musicians, politicians, innovators who came together to make our voices heard at COP21 in Paris 2015. 

To read more about the concert and our work in Paris over the COP, follow this link.


Opening speech by Rebecca Foon, co-Founder of Pathway to Paris and Director at SSG

“The climate crisis calls for courage, compassion & community. It is about peace. It calls for local, national and international solidarity. It asks that we change our lives for the better of the planet and for the collective future of our humanity. Climate change will change everything. This crisis demands that we make peace and sustainability our guiding principles.

We must come together and truly acknowledge how interconnected we all are. We must all add our voices to this urgent call for a just and livable world. The nature of that change is up to all of us – as citizens, consumers, activists, artists, scientists, students, journalists, business people, politicians.  This is why we are all here tonight. The time is now.

The UN talks currently taking place need to establish an ambitious and legally binding agreement for our climate and environment. We must move in the direction of 100% clean energy – while evolving more equitable and just societies in the process, rooted in compassion and love for our world. 

It is an enormous pleasure to be here with all of you.”

 

Friday 4th December

Saturday 5th December

(Headline quote attributed to Sandra Steinberger from EcoWatch article)

Tags: Canada, climate change, concert, COP21, Paris, Pathway to Paris, Patti Smith, UNFCCC
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