哥本哈根的希望:运动激励公众呼吁气候行动

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政治家和记者往往对旨在改善社会的国际协议感到厌倦。已经有太多评论员表示,12月7日在哥本哈根开始的全球气候峰会不会产生限制温室气体排放的实际工具。全球广告业对这种悲观情绪感到厌恶,发起了一场草根运动,鼓励全球公民发出希望的信息……以努力向各国的领导人和参加联合国气候变化大会的代表施压,促使他们采取行动。

当然,挑战在于说服足够多的人大声疾呼。因此,以纽约市的奥美地球为首的广告公司发起了一场名为“希望根哈根”的积极的公共关系运动。“你不能通过让人们感到厌烦来让他们关心气候变化。你也不能通过威胁他们来让他们关心,”奥美公关高级合伙人弗雷娅·威廉姆斯说。她说,就像说服他们想要一件产品一样,“你必须激励他们。”


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该运动的标语是“当人民领导时,领导者追随”和“让我们把哥本哈根变成希望根哈根。”奥美及其广告合作伙伴,以及SAP和可口可乐等赞助商,制作了一系列精美的、鼓舞人心的广告,包括您在这里看到的这些。

这些广告已开始在全球主要媒体上投放,并将持续在杂志、广告牌和电视上播放,直到12月18日结束的COP 15会议结束。“希望根哈根”运动在线上 www.hopenhagen.org 上进行,个人可以在那里签署呼吁采取行动的联合国气候请愿书。截至11月13日,已有超过378,000人签名。但该运动也将在YouTube、Twitter和Facebook上进行,爱好者可以在这些平台上获得“希望根哈根”护照。

威廉姆斯说,哥本哈根市也可能同意暂时更改机场、火车站和其他关键地点的某些引人注目的标志,在哥本哈根的C上粘贴半透明的绿色H。所有这些努力的既定目标是让COP 15代表知道“世界将关注他们,并让他们对结果负责。”

 

Mark Fischetti has been a senior editor at 大众科学 for 17 years and has covered sustainability issues, including climate, weather, environment, energy, food, water, biodiversity, population, and more. He assigns and edits feature articles, commentaries and news by journalists and scientists and also writes in those formats. He edits History, the magazine's department looking at science advances throughout time. He was founding managing editor of two spinoff magazines: 大众科学 Mind and 大众科学 Earth 3.0. His 2001 freelance article for the magazine, "Drowning New Orleans," predicted the widespread disaster that a storm like Hurricane Katrina would impose on the city. His video What Happens to Your Body after You Die?, has more than 12 million views on YouTube. Fischetti has written freelance articles for the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian, Technology Review, Fast Company, and many others. He co-authored the book Weaving the Web with Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, which tells the real story of how the Web was created. He also co-authored The New Killer Diseases with microbiologist Elinor Levy. Fischetti is a former managing editor of IEEE Spectrum Magazine and of Family Business Magazine. He has a physics degree and has twice served as the Attaway Fellow in Civic Culture at Centenary College of Louisiana, which awarded him an honorary doctorate. In 2021 he received the American Geophysical Union's Robert C. Cowen Award for Sustained Achievement in Science Journalism, which celebrates a career of outstanding reporting on the Earth and space sciences. He has appeared on NBC's Meet the Press, CNN, the History Channel, NPR News and many news radio stations. Follow Fischetti on X (formerly Twitter) @markfischetti

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