Getting ready for Copenhagen 2009
10.03.09
Nonprofit coalitions are springing up all over in advance of the UN climate summit in Copenhagen in December, when world leaders will meet to make important revisions to the Kyoto Protocol.
The biggest of these is tcktcktck.org, a coalition between more than two dozen major nonprofits and associations, including WWF, Oxfam and Avaaz. They're asking for an ambitious, fair, and binding treaty, and they've got some serious star power to back them up:
The Global Climate wake-up call, from Avaaz.org:
And I've been working on Make Forests Count, a small but growing coalition site aimed at eliminating loopholes that allow countries to clearcut their forests while collecting Kyoto credit.
Here's our video, written and directed by Anthony Wong:
Other groups looking forward to Copenhagen:
- The David Suzuki Foundation calls the summit "the most important wake up call of this century".
- Stop Climate Chaos is a coalition of Irish nonprofits.
- and the entire UK government calls for citizens to Act on Copenhagen
Have you seen any other inspiring sites or social media regarding the Copenhagen summit?
