October 24 International Day of Climate Action Invitation

Dear Friends in Iran —

This is an invitation to help build a movement—to take one day and use it to stop the climate crisis.

We are a group of people from around the planet—young and old, scientists and writers and activists—who working together to mobilize our communities for a global day of action on the 24^th of October, less than a month away, to address the most common threat our world faces today – climate change.  All our actions that day will have a common message – a number, the most important number on earth: 350.

In January of 2008, one of the world's greatest climatologist—NASA’s James Hansen—and his team produced a landmark series of studies. They showed that if we let the amount of carbon in the atmosphere top 350 parts per million, we can’t have a planet “similar to the one on which civilization developed and to which life on earth is adapted.”

The bad news is we’re already past that number—we’re at 389 parts per million, which is why the Arctic is melting, why drought is spreading across the planet, why people are already dying from diseases like dengue fever and malaria occurring in places where they’ve never been seen before. 

The good news is that day by day, there are more and more scientists, economists, NGOs, and ordinary people coming together to voice their support for a global commitment to bet the world back below 350.  A global movement is building and uniting, to address this global crisis.

In the month to come here’s the plan, and we invite you to be a part: on 24 October, we need you to organize a creative action of some kind at an iconic place where you live, something that will make that most important number visible to everyone.  People in more than 1,500 communities around the globe have already announced plans—they’ll be planting 3,500 trees in Abikalike, Nigeria, and diving with 350 people underwater in the Maldives.  So far more than 120 nations are taking part, including one action registered in Tabriz, Iran—this is going to be the biggest day of grassroots action on global warming ever.  But we need it to be much larger—we need you, in your community, to take part.

To learn more about 350 and what is happening on the 24^th of October you can visit www.350.org, and in particular there is more information about organizing actions here: www.350.org/actions.

And at the earliest possible – even once you just an idea or an action and are committed to seeing it through – we ask that you register the action on the website here: www.350.org/oct24.

We are happy to talk in more detail and provide what support we can.  We would be thrilled work with you in this movement and hope to hear back from you soon.

Thanks,

The 350 coordinating team