Help get John Key to Copenhagen— just $5!
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Greenpeace Sign On Ambassadors Keisha Castle-Hughes, and Rhys Darby cook $2 sausages at a BBQ outside Newmarket's Warehouse in Auckland, Saturday October 10, to raise funds to help send Prime Minister John Key to Copenhagen for the United Nations Climate Change conference. Nigel Marple/Greenpeace
If the cost of air travel is behind Prime Minister John Key’s refusal to attend the UN climate talks in Copenhagen in December, it's not anymore. Greenpeace has launched a fundraising campaign to help pay his way.
Comedian Rhys Darby kicked off the nationwide fund-raising drive with a 'Darby Barbie' in Auckland on Saturday.
“Some say I'm pretty handy on the barbie after two years working as a BBQ sales technician, so I thought I’d prove this in order to help get Mr. John Key to the ball,” said Mr Darby, from outside the Newmarket Warehouse store.
Rhys was joined by Sign On ambassadors Lucy Lawless, Keisha Castle-Hughes and climate scientist Jim Salinger.
The Key to Copenhagen stunt is part of the Sign On campaign, which is calling for New Zealand to commit to a 40 percent by 2020 emissions reduction target at Copenhagen. Fundraising activities were held by Sign On volunteers around the country throughout the day. $500 has been raised so far, enough to get John one-third of the way there (somewhere over the Pacific).
“Nearly 130,000 New Zealanders have Signed On to say they support John Key going to the meeting and doing the right thing,” says Greenpeace director Bunny McDiarmid. "He needs to listen to them. At this stage, Key is implying he won't go, which means we're that much further away from New Zealand playing a constructive role in the talks.
“If he doesn’t go, it suggests to the world that New Zealand does not take this global crisis seriously.”
Wed October 14, 2009 @ 04:13 PM
