Climate-KIC supports a bike trip from Valencia to Paris to seek a global agreement on climate change
One hundred cyclists will travel 1,100 miles to bring thousands of signatures to the leaders meeting at the UN climate summit in the French capital.
More than a hundred bicycles will travel on October 9 from Valencia to Paris to convey, in a sustainable manner, thousands of signatures collected from the citizens and institutions to the leaders of the Climate Summit in Paris 2015.
The initiative, called “March Solutions”, belongs to the AMA, and association which fights climate change, and has the support of Climate-KIC, the Generalitat Valenciana, Greenpeace, Fundación Vicente Ferrer, Valencia Bike and municipalities as Valencia, Torrent, Cuenca, Soria and Cordoba.
Hector Garcia, president of the AMA, explained that the aim of this march of 1,100 miles by bike is not other than to sensitize civil society, states and municipalities of the need to be part of the change, and get press for states commit at the next summit in Paris to a binding global agreement, according to the latest report by the UN IPCC.
Garcia recalls, the international scientific community has spent decades warning of the danger of excessive concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published in 2014, is blunt in stating that global warming is “unequivocal” and that global emissions must decrease by 40% -70% by 2050 and 100% by the end of the century, if you want to contain the rise in global temperature to + 2C, or “limit climate security”. Climate KIC, an initiative of the European Union to combat climate change through education and promotion of entrepreneurship, has joined the campaign promoted by the AMA.
It has created a portal (www.solucionescambioclimatico.org) where any individual or organization can sign and add their support to a petition, addressed to the leaders of the most crucial countries in the climate negotiations, effectively applying a binding global agreement, and reducing emissions. The “March Solutions” will be presented to the press and the public on October 8 at 1 pm in the Botanical Garden of Valencia, home of the Center for Innovation in Climate Change Valencia.