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5000 firman una petición instando al Ayuntamiento de Glastonbury a firmar. Plant Based Treaty
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Glastonbury headliner Paul McCartney calls on governments to sign the Plant Based Treaty en respuesta a la emergencia climática
August 11, 2022: Climate campaigners have launched a petition urging Glastonbury Town Council to endorse the Plant Based Treaty to help meet its pledge to be carbon neutral by 2030.
La petición –que cuenta con casi 5000 firmas, aplaude los esfuerzos del ayuntamiento por reducir los residuos y pasar a la energía renovable. Pide a Glastonbury que "dé el siguiente paso" y respalde la iniciativa. Plant Based Treaty.
El mes pasado, los conservadores lideraron Ayuntamiento de Haywards Heath se convirtió en la primera ciudad de Europa en respaldar el Tratado. El concejal verde, Dr. Richard Nicholson, dijo: “I’d encourage all Town, District, County and Metro councils to sign the Plant Based Treaty inmediatamente."
Matt Sparrey from Pyramid Vegan Cafe located at 15A High Street, Glastonbury said, “We urge Glastonbury Town Council to take action on plant-based solutions to the climate crisis and endorsing the Plant Based Treaty would be an important first step.”
Plant Based Treaty campaigner, Josephine Robinson who has been collecting signatures in Glastonbury says, “Record-breaking 40C temperatures are a dire warning that we must ramp up our efforts to tackle planet heating emissions from meat, dairy and eggs. Cuts to methane are our best hope of limiting temperature rises and animal farming accounts for a third of those emissions. Quite simply, we cannot beat the heat without a seismic shift towards plant-based diets.”
La petición ya ha llamado la atención del alcalde verde Jon Cousins, quien compartió la petición en Twitter con un título que decía: "¿Interesante?".
Paul McCartney who headlined this year’s Glastonbury Festival said in a joint statement with Mary and Stella McCartney, “We believe in justice for animals, the environment and people. That’s why we support the Plant Based Treaty e insto a particulares y gobiernos a que lo firmen.”
International recording artist Moby has also shown his support and said: “We face a climate catastrophe and especially a methane emergency. We can all make a difference. Fight climate change simply with diet change. So please join me and endorse and support the Plant Based Treaty."
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El Plant Based Treaty is modelled on the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty and inspired by treaties that have addressed threats such as ozone layer depletion. Since its launch in August 2021 the initiative has received support from 43,000 individual endorsers, 95 concejales del Reino Unido, 5 premios Nobel, Científicos del IPCC, Más que 800 ONG y grupos comunitarios y Empresas 700, incluidos Ecotricity, Linda McCartney Foods, Oceanic Preservation Society, Proyecto Alianza Ambiental, VIVA!, BOSH!, Animal Rebellion y capítulos de Greenpeace, Amigos de la Tierra y Extinction Rebellion.
The global movement asking towns and cities to endorse the Plant Based Treaty to help pressure national governments to negotiate a global treaty that will:
- Detener la expansión global de la deforestación atribuida a la ganadería.
- Incentivar un sistema alimentario basado en plantas.
- Fomentar campañas de información pública sobre los beneficios de los alimentos de origen vegetal.
- Liberar tierras para reforestar la Tierra y devolverle su estado natural.
- Permitir una transición justa hacia empleos más sostenibles, personas más sanas y un planeta más sano.