A Public Statement from Executive Director Rev. Dr. Larry Greenfield and Parliament Climate Change Task Force Chair David Hales

Today, November 4, 2016, the world celebrates the “entry into force” of the historic Paris Climate agreement reached by 196 parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) last December in Paris at the COP21 conference. On behalf of the tens of thousands of participants in the Parliament of the World’s Religions committed to climate action around the globe, we express our gratitude to all who have participated in achieving this critically important step and pledge ourselves to the important work yet to come.

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What You Can Do
From the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change:

• Celebrate with an article, blog, infographic, or a simple social media text message, or you can record a video on your smartphone, pad, notebook or desktop device and post to social media. But just sharing social media posts you see about the day would be a valuable contribution
• If you are a company, city, region or territorial government, why not light up your headquarters with a simple message, for example “We’re Taking Climate Action” or send a message to all staff, customers and colleagues via social media or on your web site

Some of the questions you can touch on in your message are:

• What are your hopes and aspirations for a better future now that the Paris Agreement has entered into force?
• How do you think your country, region, city, firm or organization can contribute?
• What are you personally ready to do now to make the Paris Agreement work?

Key hashtags for 4 November

Once you have recorded your message, please post it on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram, using the hashtag#ParisAgreement. Plus, in recognition of the mutually reinforcing and supporting role of the Sustainable Development Goals, add the #GlobalGoals.

Looking forward to the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference in Marakech, you may wish to add #COP22, and#ClimateAction.

If you'd like to help promote the campaign, we have digital assets in English, French, Spanish you can share. 

Please help to get the ball rolling so world can say: "All systems go!" for the Paris Agreement!