Campaign organisations

Kyoto2 Support Group (K2S) - a group of volunteers who believe that the Kyoto2 proposals provide a good basis for a worldwide system to cut emissions of greenhouse gases, with substantial advantages over most of the alternatives. We are working to raise awareness of the proposals amongst the general public and, in particular, amongst key politicians, advisors, negotiators and opinion-makers around the world.
Climate Ark claims to be "the Internet's largest and most used climate change portal". It features unique and very useful climate search, news tracking, analysis and alerts.
The Carbon Tax Center - launched in January 2007 to give voice to Americans who believe that taxing emissions of carbon dioxide - the primary greenhouse gas - is imperative to reduce global warming.
Repower America is dedicated to creating a new energy economy and infrastructure for America: "America faces unprecedented economic, environmental and national security challenges. We urgently need new jobs, stable energy prices, and freedom from dirty fossil fuels and global warming pollution. Finally, there's a solution as big as our problems: a bold plan to Repower America with 100% clean electricity within 10 years."
Presidential Climate Action Project - One of the most important challenges facing the 44th President - arguably the most important challenge - will be to quickly and effectively address the three interrelated problems of climate change, energy stability and national security. To help the President launch effective Federal leadership on these issues, the University of Colorado and several partner organizations are engaging the nation's science, policy, business and civic leaders to produce a Presidential Climate Action Plan (PCAP).
London-based Sandbag is a public interest company involved in climate policy debates, and which uses donated funds to buy Allowances out of the EUETS carbon market and reture them in order to reduce CO2 emissions in a secure and efficient way.
The Hong Kong based Civic Exchange is an independent think tank working on climate change, air quality and other key environmental issues, with a strong focus on public policy arising out of a broad-based participatory process.
350 is the campaign to stabilise atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations at 350ppm CO2 equivalent, or less, by mid-century, as originally proposed by Jim Hansen. Kyoto2 also supports the 350 target and is a member of the "350 network".
Cap and Share is a system for allocating greenhouse gas emission rights which proposes an equal allocation for every citizen, and that citizens should sell or retire their allocations to fossil fuel companies who would need to submit permits equal to their production in terms of carbon pollution potential. Based on C&C (contraction and convergence) principles, this represents an improvement in allocating permits to individuals rather than governments, and in moving 'upstream' to control fossil fuel producers.
Grain Agrofuels campaign - the international NGO GRAIN is at the forefront of the world campaign against biofuels, or "agrofuels" as it prefers to call them. Their 30,000 page report on agrofuel impacts is highly recommended.
Cool Earth is a UK-based organisation that uses donated funds to buy substantial areas of rainforest for conservation purposes, at a rate (2007) of £70 per acre of forest. Its co-founder, Swedish businessman Johan Eliasch, is personally responsible for safeguarding 100 million tonnes of rainforest carbon in the Amazon.
Climate Action Network Europe - Europe's leading network working on climate and energy issues. With over 100 members in 25 european countries, CAN-E unites to work to prevent dangerous climate change and promote sustainable energy and environment policy in Europe.
Website dedicated to Tradable Energy Quotas as a pathway to a low carbon future. The idea of TEQs is broadly similar to that of DTQs (Domestic Tradable Quotas). For a full description, navigate to the March 2007 paper Energy and the Common Purpose by David Fleming, edited by Shaun Chamberlin.
The Global Environmental Governance (GEG) unit promotes democracy and equity and a just framework for international environmental negotiations. Part of India's CSE (Centre for Science & Environment), which publishes Down to Earth magazine.
Artists Project Earth - founded by UN Global 500 Award winner Kenny Young (co-founder of the Earth Love Fund), APE UK recruits internationally known musicians and artists through albums, concerts, art exhibitions and art related projects to raise awareness of climate change and funds for campaigns and disaster relief. Kyoto2 is grateful for generous financial support received from APE-UK.
The Earth Policy Institute headed up by Lester Brown is a beacon of good sense and clear thinking in the US climate debate. They deserve especial commendation for their excellent campaign against the biofuel madness that is, with $ billions of tax payer funds, burning down rainforests to create expensive diesel and putting American SUVs into competition with third world slum dwellers for finite grain supplies.
The Avaaz.org Climate Wake-up Call is a campaign to pressure world leaders to agree to a second Climate Protocol including a firm cap on greenhouse gas emissions.
The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) provides a secretariat for the world's largest institutional investor collaboration on the business implications of climate change. More than 1,000 large corporations report on their emissions through this web site, the largest registry of corporate greenhouse gas emissions in the world. Responses from corporations can be downloaded without charge.
EcoEquity have developed another approach to controlling greenhouse gas emissions, based on the idea of Greenhouse Development Rights (GDRs). See their report (on website as .pdf) Greenhouse Development Rights: An approach to the global climate regime that takes climate protection seriously while also preserving the right to human development. It is strongly predicated on the "country-based" approach, and the idea of differentiating between industrial and non-industrial countries - aspects of the Kyoto Protocol that Kyoto2 discards.
MPIGGS, the Multisectoral Initiative on Potent Industrial Greenhouse Gases. "By 2050, a 20 year time horizon in HFCs are expected to make up 8.6% of total global warming, doing as much damage to the climate as the traffic fumes of all the worlds private cars." And alternatives exist to all the PIGGs in use ...
The Climate Action Network (CAN) is a worldwide network of over 365 NGOs working to promote government and individual action to limit human-induced climate change to ecologically sustainable levels. It is an active player at international climate negotiations and its insights on these negotiations and their outcomes are ever pertinent.
The Washington DC-based Climate Institute links policymakers and scientists around the world, and aims to be a definitive authority on climate change information, science and responses.
The David Suzuki Foundation promotes "solutions that conserve nature and help achieve sustainability within a generation" with a particular emphasis on climate change.
The international icount campaign. Could Kyoto2 provide a delivery mechanism for their laudable objectives? We think so.
The Pew Center on climate change. Leading US climate think tank and research organisation.
The Climate Outreach & Information Network (COIN).
Global Commons Institute, the "home" of Contraction and Convergence as promoted by the visionary Aubrey Meyer. The website contains and vast amount of information on climate and C&C in particular. The "contraction" part of C&C is very much part of Kyoto2 and we see no reason to dispute the models or conclusions on desirable CO2 trajectories outlined.