The World Rainforest Movement widely distributed before the meeting of the Conference of the Parties an appeal which was endorsed by more than 180 people and organizations during the first week after being issued, which among other things states that:
"To avoid the climate tragedy, it is essential that a total change of direction should take place --an ecological U-turn. It is clear to us that most governments --North and South-- do not appear to be willing to take decisive action. However, a reversal of the US positions is key at this time. The World Rainforest Movement urges in the strongest terms possible for organised civil society in all the countries of the world:
- to demand their governments not to accept the US government's blackmail and to pressure the US delegation to make it change its position
- to call out to industrialized country governments to assume their obligation and ensure maintenance of the planet’s climatic stability through real cuts in fossil-fuel emissions
- to stress that if the price for an agreement on the Kyoto Protocol is to weaken it by including "carbon sinks" in the Clean Development Mechanism, then it would be much less harmful not to have a Kyoto Protocol at all
- to insist that the Convention on Climate Change's mandate is not to serve the economic interests of corporations but to save the Earth's climate from an impending disaster.
