Global Citizen, the world’s leading international advocacy organization, has launched a new campaign, ‘Power Our Planet: Act today, Save Tomorrow,’ aimed at addressing climate change and extreme poverty in poor nations.
The campaign was unveiled during a summit co-chaired by Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley, in New York on Thursday.
The event was attended by other world leaders, including Emmanuel Macron, President of France; Julius Maada Bio, President of Sierra Leone; Pedro Sánchez, Prime Minister of Spain; José Ramos-Horta, President of Timor Leste, and the Government of Zambia, who are committed to supporting the initiative.
The campaign implores governments, banks, philanthropists, and corporations to contribute to raising funds that will tackle natural disasters, critical health challenges, and educational deficiencies in poor countries.
Power Our Planet will galvanize millions of global citizens around the world to take action, raise their voices and demand urgent changes from world leaders.
The campaign will amplify their calls for action through advocacy initiatives, activations, and live events.
The summit also called on institutions, including the World Bank, to release the funds necessary to help the world’s poorest countries adapt, transition and withstand the climate crisis, not tomorrow, but now.
The campaign will hold world leaders accountable on past promises and call for bold new commitments to tackle climate change and extreme poverty.
The campaign will include several inflection points throughout the year, including the G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan, the New Global Financial Pact Summit in Paris, France, the G20 summit in New Delhi, India, Global Citizen Festival during the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, USA, and COP28 in Dubai, UAE.
