The World’s First Global Free-Running Jam Against Climate Change
WHAT:
A world record for the largest ever global free-running jam to take place around the world in one day will be set – as part of the One Giant Leap climate change campaign organised by Parkour Generations and environmental awareness organisation Sandbag. UK based free-runners will join forces to take part in the “global climate jam” and show their support for the campaign involving some 3,000 of the rooftop-leaping athletes across 75 cities in over 30 countries.
WHY:
Through a co-ordinated global training day involving thousands of practitioners of parkour/freerunning, One Giant Leap hopes to encourage people around the world to get involved by attending their nearest jam and signing up to the campaign at www.sandbag.org.uk/onegiantleap
Sandbag will direct public support towards the UN meeting taking place in Copenhagen this December – in a bid to JUMP start a climate deal, DROP global power emissions by 10% and ROLL out clean electricity everywhere. If included in the next global agreement, the One Giant Leap policy would control and reduce a quarter of all global carbon emissions - only 3,300 power stations around the world account for this huge source of emissions.
WHO:
One Giant Leap, led by climate change NGO Sandbag and the world leading parkour collective Parkour Generations, is a unique initiative that specifically focuses on the global power sector and electricity. The power sector is the biggest, easiest and the most important of all carbon emitting sectors to address and it can tackle climate change in One Giant Leap.
WHEN:
Global climate jams will take place around the world:
Starting in Kaikyo Messe, Japan on Saturday, 26th September, 07:30-09:30 | 22:30-00:30 (GMT)
Ending in Columbus Ohio, USA on Saturday, 26th September, 17:00-19:00 | 21:00-23:00 (GMT)
UK based climate jams will take place on Saturday 26th September at the following locations and times:
IMAX centre, London from 11:00-15:00 | 10:00-14:00 (GMT)
St Giles Churchyard, Oxford from 12:00-15:00 | 11:00-14:00 (GMT)
Bristol Square, Edinburgh from 12:00-14:00 | 11:00-13:00 (GMT)
Brunswick Street, Glasgow from 14:30-16:30 | 13:30-15:30 (GMT)
WHERE:
Argentina (2 cities) | Australia (4) | Brazil (7) | Chile (2) | China (8) |Columbia (2) | England (3) | Egypt (1) | Holland (1) | Hong Kong, P.R.C (1) | India (1) | Indonesia (5) | Kuwait (1) | Malaysia (1) | Mexico (10) | Philippines (1) | Poland (1) | Portugal (2) | Russia (3) | Scotland (2) | Singapore (1) | South Africa (1) | Spain (16) | Sweden (1) | Switzerland (1) | Uruguay (1) | USA (6)
CONTACT:
Damien Morris, Climate Campaigner, phone: +44 (0) 791 466 9569, email: damien@sandbag.org.uk
Dan Edwardes, Parkour Generations Director, +44 (0) 7789742919 email: dan@parkourgenerations.com
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