Global Campaign for Climate Action
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The Global Campaign for Climate Action (GCCA), is a global alliance of more than 280 non-profit organizations all over the world. Our shared mission is to mobilize civil society and galvanize public support to ensure a safe climate future for people and nature, to promote the low-carbon transition of our economies, and to accelerate the adaptation efforts
in communities already affected by climate change.
The GCCA was formed in 2008 and started campaigning in early 2009, with the goal to secure a fair, ambitious and binding climate treaty at the COP15 climate summit in Copenhagen at the end of that year. One of the newer members of the GCCA, Kofi Annan
’s Global Humanitarian Forum (GHF), offered the use of the new TckTckTck open source logo and marketing campaign which had been designed by Euro RSCG/Havas, an international advertising agency working pro bono for Kofi Annan. The TckTckTck logo thus became the shared brand for the new climate alliance.
The GCCA is not a coalition in the traditional sense of the word, as we do not negotiate common policy positions beyond what is contained in our Call to Action and Asks. We focus on what unites us and not on what divides us, and partner organizations are free to engage with the campaign in ways that best suit their own strengths. The NGO movement united under the TckTckTck banner has kept growing ever since it started, inspiring people all over the world to take action in the race to the low-carbon future.
In 2010 TckTckTck won a “Game-Changer” Award from the We Media Foundation, was short-listed for a Webby Award for world’s best advocacy campaign, and listed by The Guardian as one of the Top 50 climate tweeters in the world. We work hard to stay innovative, as we run creative campaigns, design cutting edge communications tools, and build capacity amongst NGOs to grow the movement for change both on and off-line.
, Greenpeace
, Oxfam
, Amnesty International
, DARA (international organization), the Red Cross, Christian Aid
, World Council of Churches
, 350.org
, Avaaz, E3G.org, Global Call to Action Against Poverty
, the Boy Scouts
and the YMCA
.
Together they represent millions of citizens all over the world concerned about climate change who recognize a need for genuine leadership and meaningful action. A complete list of all GCCA partners is available here.
(Canada).
There are many ways for organizations and individuals to get involved and to add their voice to the TckTckTck campaign. Contact the GCCA Secretariat today if you would like to join TckTckTck in showing world leaders the impact that civil society can have on solving the world’s challenges when we are unified.
Adaptation to global warming
Adaptation to global warming and climate change is a response to climate change that seeks to reduce the vulnerability of natural and human systems to climate change effects. Even if emissions are stabilized relatively soon, climate change and its effects will last many years, and adaptation will...
in communities already affected by climate change.
Background
The GCCA was born from conversations between internationally-respected campaigners and advocates representing environmental and development NGOs and social justice groups. These climate activists concluded in 2006 that the fight against climate change needed a boost. By uniting together across organizations to create public campaigns particularly in countries where additional mobilizing capacity was needed, they felt they had a better chance of becoming more than the sum of the parts.The GCCA was formed in 2008 and started campaigning in early 2009, with the goal to secure a fair, ambitious and binding climate treaty at the COP15 climate summit in Copenhagen at the end of that year. One of the newer members of the GCCA, Kofi Annan
Kofi Annan
Kofi Atta Annan is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the UN from 1 January 1997 to 31 December 2006...
’s Global Humanitarian Forum (GHF), offered the use of the new TckTckTck open source logo and marketing campaign which had been designed by Euro RSCG/Havas, an international advertising agency working pro bono for Kofi Annan. The TckTckTck logo thus became the shared brand for the new climate alliance.
The GCCA is not a coalition in the traditional sense of the word, as we do not negotiate common policy positions beyond what is contained in our Call to Action and Asks. We focus on what unites us and not on what divides us, and partner organizations are free to engage with the campaign in ways that best suit their own strengths. The NGO movement united under the TckTckTck banner has kept growing ever since it started, inspiring people all over the world to take action in the race to the low-carbon future.
Achievements and Campaigns
In 2009 and 2010, our member organizations together mobilized 17 million people worldwide in a shared call for a fair, ambitious and legally-binding climate treaty. These supporters united in online petitions and real world days of action, showing leaders their willingness to move towards a sustainable, low-carbon future. Collectively we have inspired millions people from all walks of life and nearly every country on earth to join hands and tackle dangerous climate change.In 2010 TckTckTck won a “Game-Changer” Award from the We Media Foundation, was short-listed for a Webby Award for world’s best advocacy campaign, and listed by The Guardian as one of the Top 50 climate tweeters in the world. We work hard to stay innovative, as we run creative campaigns, design cutting edge communications tools, and build capacity amongst NGOs to grow the movement for change both on and off-line.
GCCA Partners
Our 280 and growing group of partners come from a broad spectrum of civil society, including national and international NGOs working to protect the environment or to fight poverty, as well as faith-based charities and labor unions. These partners include, among others, World Wide Fund for NatureWorld Wide Fund for Nature
The World Wide Fund for Nature is an international non-governmental organization working on issues regarding the conservation, research and restoration of the environment, formerly named the World Wildlife Fund, which remains its official name in Canada and the United States...
, Greenpeace
Greenpeace
Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over forty countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, The Netherlands...
, Oxfam
Oxfam
Oxfam is an international confederation of 15 organizations working in 98 countries worldwide to find lasting solutions to poverty and related injustice around the world. In all Oxfam’s actions, the ultimate goal is to enable people to exercise their rights and manage their own lives...
, Amnesty International
Amnesty International
Amnesty International is an international non-governmental organisation whose stated mission is "to conduct research and generate action to prevent and end grave abuses of human rights, and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated."Following a publication of Peter Benenson's...
, DARA (international organization), the Red Cross, Christian Aid
Christian Aid
Christian Aid is the official relief and development agency of 40 British and Irish churches and works to support sustainable development, alleviate poverty, support civil society and provide disaster relief in South America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, Africa and Asia...
, World Council of Churches
World Council of Churches
The World Council of Churches is a worldwide fellowship of 349 global, regional and sub-regional, national and local churches seeking unity, a common witness and Christian service. It is a Christian ecumenical organization that is based in the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva, Switzerland...
, 350.org
350.org
350.org is an international environmental organization, headed by author Bill McKibben, with the goal of building a global grassroots movement to raise awareness of anthropogenic climate change, to confront climate change denial, and to cut emissions of one of the greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide,...
, Avaaz, E3G.org, Global Call to Action Against Poverty
Global Call to Action Against Poverty
The Global Call to Action Against Poverty is a growing worldwide alliance consisting of national coalitions of campaigns to end poverty....
, the Boy Scouts
Boy Scouts
A Boy Scout is a member of a Scouting organization. There are thousands of national Scouting organizations or federations; these are grouped into six international Scouting associations with some non-aligned organizations....
and the YMCA
YMCA
The Young Men's Christian Association is a worldwide organization of more than 45 million members from 125 national federations affiliated through the World Alliance of YMCAs...
.
Together they represent millions of citizens all over the world concerned about climate change who recognize a need for genuine leadership and meaningful action. A complete list of all GCCA partners is available here.
Together for Climate Action
The GCCA is supported by a small international Secretariat dispersed around the world, with its home office based in MontrealMontreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
(Canada).
There are many ways for organizations and individuals to get involved and to add their voice to the TckTckTck campaign. Contact the GCCA Secretariat today if you would like to join TckTckTck in showing world leaders the impact that civil society can have on solving the world’s challenges when we are unified.
See also
- International Day of Climate Action
- World People's Conference on Climate ChangeWorld People's Conference on Climate ChangeThe World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth was a global gathering of civil society and governments hosted by the government of Bolivia in Tiquipaya, just outside the city of Cochabamba from April 19–22, 2010...
- Individual and political action on climate changeIndividual and political action on climate changeIndividual and political action on climate change can take many forms, most of which have the ultimate goal of limiting and/or reducing the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, toward avoiding dangerous climate change.-Political action:...