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We Sign On
Project Type
Organizing and Advocacy
Date
2017-Present
Summary
Started as a demonstration of opposition to U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, "We Sign On" went on to reach over half a million people, inspiring similar petitions, and demonstrating to U.S. leaders and the world that the people of the United States remained committed to the Paris Agreement.
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In 2017, then-President Donald Trump announced that he would withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement - the historical international agreement ensuring coordinated action toward decarbonization. We Sign On was born in the wake of that announcement, and continues to this day as a project intended to bring the tools of climate-oriented policy change to private citizens.
Through email campaigns and social media engagement, over half a million people were reached within days. Partnering with MoveOn.org, Avaaz.org, and 350.org, we were invited to present over 2.5 million signatures on the floor of the United Nations headquarters.
We subsequently planned and organized days of action, on which petition signatories delivered their local signatures to state houses and town halls across the country.
The popular movement marked a sea change in thinking on U.S. climate action. No longer was the climate seen as a responsibility of the federal government alone. Instead, individuals, governments, and organizations across the country realized that the commitments of the Paris Agreement were as much a responsibility of their own, as of the national government.