Bitte listet hier Initiativen und Verbaende, die national oder international aktiv am Klimaschutz, und Klima-relevanten Thematiken, arbeiten.
Deutsche Initiativen und Verbaende
"Die Zeit drängt. Der Klimawandel hat bereits eingesetzt. Eine neue Klima- und Energiepolitik duldet keinen weiteren Aufschub. Die Zeit ist reif für einen gesellschaftlichen Aufbruch."
Seit Beginn des Jahres 2008 stehen dem Bundesumweltministerium (BMU) aus der Versteigerung von Emissionshandelszertifikaten zusätzliche Haushaltsmittel für die Umsetzung einer Klimaschutzinitiative zur Verfügung. Standen in 2008 insgesamt 400 Mio. € bereit, von denen 280 Mio. € in Deutschland und 120 Mio. € in Schwellen- und Entwicklungsländern investiert wurden, konnte für 2009 eine Ausweitung auf 460 Mio. € zusätzlicher Mittel für den BMU-Haushalt erreicht werden. 
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Buergerinitiativen
Internationale Initiativen
350.org
Englisch-sprachige Initiativen und Verbaende
The Climate Project: www.theclimateproject.org exists in several countires: UK, Spain, Canada, Australia, India,
Greenpeace: http://www.greenpeace.de/
World Wildlife Fund: http://www.wwf.de/themen/klimaschutz/
Oikos International. "Oikos is the international student organisation for sustainable economics and management. We seek to strengthen action competence for sustainable development among tomorrow’s decision makers."
UN: Plant for the planet Initiative: http://www.plant-for-the-planet.org/
It’s Getting Hot in Here is the voice of a growing movement. A community media project, it features the student and youth leaders from the movement to stop global warming and to build a more just and sustainable future.
- Climate Action Network (CAN): The Climate Action Network (CAN) is a worldwide network of over 430 Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) working to promote government and individual action to limit human-induced climate change to ecologically sustainable levels.
- Earth Survey. In this blog I will post results of a short environmental survey that I have sent to government officials, religious leaders, corporate CEOs, wildlife experts, and others. If you have any questions or comments, or would like a copy of the survey sent to you, please let me know!
- Budburst - Join in collecting important climate change data on the timing of leafing and flowering in your area through Project BudBurst This project seems like a great way to spread the interest in learning about climatic changes to gardeners, school groups, wannabe naturalists (I live in a highly urbanized area but I've found a lilac bush to track this year!)
- The Sierra Club has a "No New Coal" nationwide campaign to stop the building of a number of proposed coal-fired electical generation plants in the US. coal fact sheet 2.doc Over the past several years, in the absence of any significant public dialogue, plans have emerged to build as many as 150 new coal-fired power plants across the United States. This departure from two decades of shifting to cleaner energy sources is threatening to derail local, state, and federal efforts now underway to address climate change. This backward policy would also dramatically increase our use of coal, laying waste to communities. Building this new generation of plants would add 790 million tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere every year, carrying us beyond the disastrous tipping point. Just two of the largest coal plant proposals would increase carbon dioxide emissions more than the emission reductions proposed by the seven Northeast states from all of their power plants, as part of their Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). Simply put, if these plants are built, we will not be able to achieve the emissions reductions scientists say we need to avoid the worst effects of global warming. To see an updated list of proposed coal plants around the country, go to http://www.sierraclub.org/environmentallaw/coal/plantlist.asp
- Canadians beware (and everybody else!! Suffield National Wildlife Area is one of the last large areas of native mixed grass prairie in North-America, and is proposed to be further developed with an additional >1,200 gas wells. I am on the scientific review panel (one of the "interveners") fighting ENCNA's plan. The public hearingwill allow your comments to be heard. Please help fight the destruction of a beautiful prairie, and fight the promotion of further extraction of CO2 emitting fossil fuels. More information on the infill project can be found here.
- 25x'25 is a rallying cry for renewable energy and a goal for America – to get 25 percent of our energy from renewable resources like wind, solar, and biofuels by the year 2025. The 25x'25 Action Plan: Charting America's Energy Future provides that policy framework and serves as a map for the public and policy makers to use in setting a new course for America. The Action Plan outlines specific steps needed to put our nation on the path to achieve the 25x’25 goal: By the year 2025, America’s farms, ranches and forests will provide 25 percent of the total energy consumed in the United States, while continuing to produce safe, abundant and affordable food, feed and fiber.
- Acterra has a program called Green@Home, where they're looking for volunteers to make "House Calls" to help people in the community adopt more eco-friendly practices. The program is limited in scope right now to a couple towns in Northern CA, but will hopefully grow.
- Project Laundry List uses words, images, and advocacy to educate people about how simple lifestyle modifications, including air-drying one’s clothes, reduce our dependence on environmentally and culturally costly energy sources.
- Facing the climate change: Citizens respond to global warming. Here is your chance to try out your writing skills and contribute your experience with climate change. FacingtheChange-Invitation.pdf
- Architecture 2030, a non-profit, non-partisan and independent organization, was established in response to the global-warming crisis by architect Edward Mazria in 2002. 2030’s mission is to rapidly transform the US and global Building Sector from the major contributor of greenhouse gas emissions to a central part of the solution to the global-warming crisis. Our goal is straightforward: to achieve a dramatic reduction in the global-warming-causing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of the Building Sector by changing the way buildings and developments are planned, designed and constructed.
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Northwest Earth Institute.
The Northwest Earth Institute is recognized as a national leader in the development of innovative programs that empower individuals and organizations to protect ecological systems. Today, NWEI offers seven study guides for small groups. These self-guided discussion courses are offered in workplaces, homes, faith centers, neighborhoods, and community centers throughout North America.
Voluntary Simplicity
Choices for Sustainable Living
Exploring Deep Ecology
Discovering a Sense of Place
Globalization and Its Critics
Healthy Children-Healthy Planet
Global Warming: Changing CO2urse
Avaaz.
As major new challenges like climate change and escalating religious conflict threaten our common future, people from around the world are coming together to take global politics into their own hands. Avaaz.org (Our name means "Voice" or "Song" in several languages including Hindi, Urdu, Farsi, Nepalese, Dari, Turkish, and Bosnian) is a community of global citizens who take action on the major issues facing the world today. Our aim is to ensure that the views and values of the world’s people -- and not just political elites and unaccountable corporations -- shape global decisions. Avaaz.org members are taking action for a more just and peaceful world and a vision of globalization with a human face.
In our inter-connected world, the actions of political leaders and corporations are having a profound impact on all of us. To match the power and reach of global leaders and borderless corporations, Avaaz.org members are building a powerful movement of citizens without borders. As citizens without borders, we might not have the resources of governments, corporations or the media, but working together we can bring together millions of people around the world and make global public opinion really count on major global issues like poverty, climate change, human rights and global security.
Using the latest technology, Avaaz.org empowers ordinary people from every corner of the globe to directly contact key global decision-makers, corporations and the media. By signing up to receive updates from Avaaz.org, members receive emails and text messages alerting them to new campaigns and opportunities to act online and offline, and to make a real difference on pressing global issues.
The International Plastics Task Force
Welcome to the International Plastics Task Force, a diverse and committed network of activists, waste management specialists and Non Governmental Organizations world wide. As the plastic industry grows there has been a correlating increase in toxic pollution (both to the environment and to humans) and corporate control over governing bodies intended to protect citizens and the environment from harm. Meanwhile, as plastic wastes become more prolific, less and less effort is being made to document the negative effects of new resin types. We feel that there is an increasing need for activists, ecologists, non-profit organizations and waste management experts to come together in order to share information on plastic waste on an international scale. Plastic has become an environmental problem of global scale, and 
this group is intended to initiate dialogue and action on these issues. As plastic is non-biodegradable, toxic and not recyclable in the true sense of the word, the need for an international coalition against plastic waste is paramount.
Seven Misconceptions about Plastic and Recycling
The Institute for Public Policy Research is the UK’s leading progressive think tank, producing cutting edge research and innovative policy ideas for a just, democratic and sustainable world.
Our agenda is simple: we want to build a fairer, more democratic and environmentally sustainable world. We are driven by these values, not by any party or interest group.
We are ambitious for what can be achieved by good public policy. We aim to inform policy debates and are prepared to challenge orthodoxy and prevailing wisdom - from whatever side of the argument.
We have built a reputation on high research standards and innovative thinking. Studies show we are rated positively by politicians from all parties - a rare distinction.
Founded in 1993, the global Club of Budapest is an informal international association dedicated to developing a new way of thinking and a new ethics that will help resolve the social, political, economic, and ecological challenges of the 21st century. With its roster of internationally renowned members the Club initiates a dialogue between different belief systems and world views in order to co-create and develop effective strategies for responsible and sustainable action with a global focus.
For nearly three decades, the Tällberg Foundation has been deepening our understanding of issues related to leadership and change in society and business. The Foundation’s main focus of activity is to gather leaders from around the world and from a variety of backgrounds for discussions and reflection...
The Club of Rome is a global think tank and centre of innovation and initiative. As a non-profit, non govermental organisation (NGO), it brings together scientists, economists, businessmen, international high civil servants, heads of state and former heads of state from all five continents who are convinced that the future of humankind is not determined once and for all and that each human being can contribute to the improvement of our societies.
Voice of Future Generations The World Future Council is a new voice in the global political arena - one that draws on our shared human values to champion the rights of future generations, and works to ensure that humanity acts now for a sustainable future.
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