Young people from all over Lebanon did a symbolic action on Ramlet El Bayda Beach in Beirut calling upon individuals, institutions, and governments to join "the global effort to combat climate change." According to the organizers, 200 activists from Merci Corps, within a scheme of local initiatives through local municipalities and the League of Independent Activists (IndyACT), drew with their bodies “20:12” on the Lebanese flag.

To stabilize our already chaotic climate and to avoid catastrophic global warming of 2-7 degrees centigrade or more, we must reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) pollution from our current unsustainable global level of 389 parts CO2 per million to 350 ppm or below. Otherwise, we face massive crop failures, starvation, water shortages, pestilence, and unending wars for dwindling natural resources. In practical terms, this means reducing current fossil fuel use (especially in the food, transport, housing, military, and utilities sectors) by 90% by 2050; while sequestering or storing as much CO2 as possible in the soil through organic soil management and reforestation.