NUS have signed up to show support for immediate action to get the UK onto the low-emissions pathway that scientists say is needed to prevent disastrous rises in global temperature this century.
A 10% cut in emissions in a single year is an ambitious target but NUS is committed to joining the national drive to get as close to it as possible.
Kicking off with a mass sign-up at Tate Modern on London's South Bank, the event saw contributions from a host of high-profile signatories including Radio One's Sara Cox, the Guardian's Editor-in-Chief Alan Rusbridger and Grand Designs' Kevin McCloud.
In between free music from bands Reverend and The Makers and Stornoway, celebrity guests drove home the message that climate change is the most urgent issue of our time - but that ordinary people acting together can do something meaningful about it by signing up to the 10:10 campaign.
Students are expected to be the driving force behind the campaign with representatives from students’ unions at Birmingham, UEA, Leicester, Manchester, Reading, UWE, Goldsmiths and LSE attending the launch alongside NUS.
To see which other students’ unions have signed up to the campaign, click here.
Inside the iconic Turbine Hall, around three thousand members of the public received special 10:10 Tags made from a recycled jumbo jet as they pledged to cut their emissions next year.
At the time of writing, more than 8000 individuals, 270 businesses, 125 organisations and 42 schools have committed to 10:10. During the past 24 hours the 10:10 office has received enquiries about setting up 10:10 in the Netherlands, the USA, Bali, France, Sweden, Tasmania, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Belgium.
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