Free diving at the Great Barrier Reef

What’s the goal of COP21? For world leaders to create the strongest global agreement possible to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. That’s why people from many countries are speaking out to them in this video and open letter. Please watch it, sign it, and pass along to your friends.

Greenland Ice Sheet 2009. Adam LeWinter surveys Birthday Canyon. From ICE:Portraits of the World’s Vanishing Glaciers. (Copyright EIS/James Balog)

Leaders from 195 countries meet in the same room together in Paris this December at the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) to the United Nations’ Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Emmanuel de Merode, director of Virunga National Park. Photo courtesy of Orlando von Einsiedel (Virunga, the documentary)

Now is the time for them to act, to commit to the future of the planet, and the future of all living things. Demand that world leaders take action to reduce greenhouse gases, stop using fossil fuels and endangering the future of all living species. Extinction is forever!

Sea Lion pups