Urgent Appeal for Funding!

 

 

 

Your Assistance Is Needed To Help Achieve A Global Ban On Leaded Petrol.

 

 

The LEAD Group makes an urgent appeal to our web readers for donations to send our representative and member of the Partnership for Cleaner Fuels and Vehicles (PCFV), Elizabeth O’Brien, to the United Nations Environment Programme’s 5th Global Partnership Meeting. The event will be held in Quito, Ecuador, 15‑16 February 2007.

 

The meeting will be an important milestone in the work of the Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles (PCFV) and will map out the strategies need to achieve the phase-out of leaded petrol around the world.

 

In June 2004 Elizabeth was honoured with the Award for Outstanding Service to the Environment by the United Nations Association of Australia. Elizabeth attended the 3rd Global meeting in Delhi, India, in 2004.

 

No other Australian representative has attended any other of the annual meetings, yet The LEAD Group believes that it is Australian lead that is used to make the leaded petrol for all remaining 80 or so countries where leaded petrol is sold. Therefore we feel it is important that Australia is represented at this meeting.

 

The LEAD Group seeks a quick global end to the use of leaded gasoline and believes that it is the most important public health goal of the last century. The PCFV appears to be the only process that can achieve this global ban within an acceptable time frame.

 

The approximate costs of attendance to the Global Meeting include return flights from Sydney to Quito (from $AUD 2,850- not including government charges and taxes) the hotel accommodation ($USD 75 per night, for a regular room at Swissotel, for one week), the cost of meals (lunch will be catered for on the 2 days of the meeting) and transfers to and from the airport in Quito.

 

Any donations would be greatly appreciated! Donations over $2 are tax deductible.

 

Thank you!

 

 

Donation Information

 

Phone: (02) 9716 0014

 

Bank Details:

BSB: 062257

Account No:  1008 9393

Account name: LEAD GROUP INCORPORATED NSW LEAD EDUCATION AND ABATEMENT FUND

Bank: Commonwealth Bank Australia, Summer Hill, NSW, 2130

 

 

 

The Lead Group Inc is endorsed as an income Tax Exempt Charitable entity under subdivision 50-B of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997.

 

The Lead Education and Abatement Fund (LEAF) is a public fund listed on the Register of Environmental Organisations under Item 6.1.1 of subsection 30-55(1) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 and is endorsed as a Deductible Gift Recipient under subdivision 30-BA of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997.