| Useful links about
climate change
The Stop
Climate Chaos Coalition
Launched on 1 September 2005 Stop Climate Chaos (a registered
charity) aims to be the broadest and most diverse coalition yet
established within the UK to campaign for changes to government
policy on climate change. Its growing membership – which includes
many of the UK’s leading environmental organisations, international
development agencies and other national campaigning bodies – aims to
build irresistible public pressure on the UK Government to act at
home and abroad to prevent global warming from exceeding the
widely-accepted danger threshold of 2 deg. C.
Calderdale Climate Challenge
Our climate is changing and we can already see some of the effects
here in Calderdale. If the climate continues to change, almost every
aspect of our lives at home, at school and at work will be
different.
The
Alternative Technology Centre
The Alternative
Technology Centre (ATC) is a not-for-profit
organisation established in 1999 on the banks of
the Rochdale Canal in Hebden Bridge. As an educational resource
centre, we aim to make
sustainability achievable and simply irresistible by working from a
strong base within our local community to provide inspiration,
accessible information and advice
to improve the quality of life
using sustainable means – economic, environmental and social.
Climate Outreach
&Information Network
The Climate Outreach Information Network (COIN) is a charitable
trust formed in 2004 to directly engage the public about climate
change. Their aim was, and still is, to facilitate the process by
which people: overcome denial about climate change; act collectively
to cut greenhouse gas emissions; and offer democratic legitimacy to
elected leaders to negotiate successfully for strong regulation at a
national and international level.
Defra - Climate change and energy
The UK is acting now to adapt to climate change and to reduce the
risk by reducing our contribution to the causes. This website
explains what climate change means for the UK and what we are doing
about it.
Climate
Cartoons
Cartoons, some with strong language, about climate change and other
environmental issues.
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