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OUR HISTORY AND MISSION
The Climate Crisis Coalition (CCC) connects global warming to human rights, labor, peace, faith, sustainable business practices, environmental justice and other issues. Our mission is to build a broad-based coalition that can become an effective, powerful agent for change: the development and unfolding of a national and visible action campaign that makes it impossible for citizens and governments to ignore the urgent demands of the climate crisis.
CCC INITIATIVES
The People’s Ratification of the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty, an ongoing petition gathering effort began the day the Kyoto Protocol kicked in, on February 16, 2006. We took the petition to the U.N. Conference in Montreal last December, as a way of showing how U.S. citizens feel about the U.S. not cooperating with the rest of the world in reducing greenhouse gases and it continues to gain momentum and to be an effective vehicle to engage people in climate issues. The People’s Ratification petition was recently signed and endorsed by Al Gore.
USA Join the World! is a campaign to engage a broad spectrum of people in political and social action. Last year we worked with 70 organizations to facilitate 40 actions around the U.S. on December 3rd, the International Day of Climate Action. More recently, we were a cosponsor of the hugely successful March for Peace, Justice, Democracy and the Earth, on April 29th in New York City with more than 350,000 people from all over the country. We are currently organizing for the November 4th International Day of Climate Action. This day will again coincide with the U.N. Climate Conference (in Nairobi this year) and there will again be local actions around the country. This year, there will also be a particular focus on climate issues relevant to the congressional elections – which take place three days later.
The ClimateUSA Campaign is a current initiative designed to put climate change squarely on the agenda of the upcoming November Congressional elections. The goal is to get as many Senators, Congresspeople, and challengers as possible to take a visible public position on the climate crisis. As volunteers and concerned citizens circulate the People’s Ratification of Kyoto petition they will also be encouraged to promote our three point platform, which calls for the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol, the passage of specific pending climate bills, and the transfer of subsidies from fossil fuel to renewables.
CCC DAILY AND WEEKEND NEWSFEED
Our popular CCC Newsfeed is available free by e-mail. The weekday edition provides summaries and links to breaking climate-related stories. The Sunday edition provides a review of the top stories of the week as well as summaries of and links to new stories.
For more information
call: 413.243.5665
email: raya@kyotoandbeyond.org |
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