Apollo Alliance
The most promising US blue/green coalition in ages, Apollo frames its efforts in terms of good jobs and energy independence.  Little talk of global issues, but it's at least possible to hope that internationalism, too, will come with time.  Apollo is a key organization, no doubt about that.

Blue Green Alliance
The Blue Green working group has long been working to build links between US environmental and labor groups.  It's had a rocky history, but that goes with the territory.  BlueGreen has survived and regrouped, and is now one of group's that's coordinating the US movement for "green collar jobs."

Cap and Share
There are new ideas in play, and one of the most important of them is Cap and Share, a proposal for a carbon rationing system based on personal carbon allowances.   Think carbon credit cards.  Think, especially, hard-nosed thinking about what moral equivalents of war are really likely to demand.

Carbon Equity
Behind this site is a small but rapidly growing group of  brave and original thinkers.   Their main obsession will be familiar to EcoEquity readers -- the pressing need to take the science straight, and to respond with a global emergency mobilization.  And we have to confess that their focus on "rationing" isn't looking too bad either. 

Centre for Science and the Environment (CSE)
India's CSE, well known among Southern environmental NGOs, has been enormously influential in the climate equity movement since 1990's publication of Anil Agarwal and Sunita Narain's Global Warming in an Unequal World.  Their whole (extensive) site is well worth exploring, and this remains true even though they've not been focused on climate recently.

Climate Action Network (CAN)
The Climate Action Network is a global coalition of over four hundred independent organizations working the climate issue, and many of the other organizations on this list are members of it.  See, in particular, the ECO newsletter, which CAN publishes from all major international climate meetings; there's really nothing else like it.  The US Climate Action Network is, of course, the web home of the US region of CAN.  It also provides a portal to the climate pages of most of the major U.S. environmental groups.

Climate Change Denial
Now here is something new, a long, clear-headed look at the social-psychology of denial.  And by "psychology" we don't mean that old-school nonsense that treats the "individual" apart from society.  As if!

Climate Crisis Coalition
The CCC aims to be a big, straight-shooting, from-the-bottom-up, amalgam  of US climate movements.  It touches the campuses, and the cities-based movement, and of course Washington -- all of it, after all, is necessary.   Not a home to pragmatism and measured response; the ethos here is of emergency. 

Climate Justice Now
If you want to follow the thoughts and development of the global-justice wing of the international climate movement,  this is a good place to do it.  In fact, you'd be hard pressed to find a better one. 

Ella Baker Center
This small, Oakland based human rights center is, we sincerely hope, a sign of things to come.  Green-collar Jobs and Bay Area Police Watch, they're both here.   If you want to see what outsized influence looks like, this is the place. 

Energy Action
One of the broadest climate coalitions in the US, Energy Action is focused on the universities and thus overlaps with Focus the Nation, the Campus Climate Challenge, and all sorts of other student-led initiatives.   The level of commitment in these circles is a real inspiration!

Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative
The EJCC is a US Initiative designed to bring US Environmental Justice groups together to engage the climate issue.  Check out the site, and you'll see that the match makes excellent sense.  This is up-to-date stuff, by the way.   No one here is resting on their laurels.

Focus on the Global South
Focus has long been one of the global justice movement's indispensable organizations.  And now that it is moving into climate it should be welcomed with open arms.  It falls on the oppositionist side of the climate movement's political spectrum, and does so with unusual depth and compelling analysis.   See this post-Bali roundup.  

Global Commons Institute (GCI)
Aubrey Meyer of London's GCI has been working for over a decade to put "contraction and convergence" onto the international agenda, and he has had some real success, particularly in Europe.  And come what may, there's an irreducible truth here -- at the end of the day, any fair global climate regime will have to result in contraction and convergence.  

Global Footprint Network
Footprint analysis has long been indispensable to honest, no-bullshit pedagogy on the environmental crisis, but that's hardly the end of it's possibilities.  GFN is pushing the footprint approach farther than it's it's ever gone before, and ito very useful effect!

Great Transition Initiative
A global network (of senior environmental policy wonks from around the world) elaborating visions and pathways for a future of enriched lives, human solidarity and a healthy planet.  See, in particular, the GTI paper series, which is dense with insights and ideas. 

Heatisonline.org
Ross Gelbspan's site, and his classic proposal, which couples the Tobin tax with progressive fossil fuel efficiency standards, and his evolving thoughts.   This is good stuff, and any serious US climate activist should know it well.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
The IPCC is the global scientific authority of last resort when it comes to climate change, and this remains true despite the IPCC's conservativism (a long story that's not approopriate here).   All of its major reports are available via the Web site, though you may have to root around a bit to find them all. 

International Forum on Globalization
The IFG, one of the keystone organizations of the old "anti-globalization movement ," is increasingly focusing on what it calls the "triple crisis" of climate change, peak oil, and resource depletion.  Definitely one to keep an eye on, particularly if you're interested in  the politics of trade and international property rights.

International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
IISD hosts Climate-L, the premier list for announcement of climate-related activities and publications, the Earth Negotiations Bulletin, a dry but objective review of the daily activities at major global environmental negotiations, the annual Development and Climate Days meeting that takes at every climate COP, and gobs of other important stuff. 

International Rivers
International Rivers is not well known as a climate organization, though it's record as a solidarity organization -- championing the poor and the week against the depredations of Big Hydro -- is long and distinguished.   But with the recent publication of Failed Mechanism (on the CDM), and plans to relaunch CDM Watch, this is changing.  

Jim Hansen's homepage
Jim Hansen, of course, is one of the world's leading climate scientists; he's certainly one of the most influential, one of the most prolific, and one of the most courageous.  Indeed, his latest writings are nothing less than terrifying.

Just Transition Alliance
The Just Transition Alliance is a US Environmental Justice organization with a fine history and a really fine name.  Just transitions is what this is all about.

The Kyoto Protocol
For those of you who just have to check Article 17, the full text of the Kyoto Protocol is right here.  Help yourself.

On the Commons
Now here's something new!  An good, well-maintained website focusing on the new "commons movement."   Definitely check it out, because this is the single best entry point to a burgeoning movement and a fascinating, indispensable literature.

RealClimate
If we had to pick three absolutely indispensable climate websites, realclimate -- climate science by climate scientists -- would have to make the cut.  And this despite the fact that it has no explicit commitment to social justice.   Because, let's face it, avoiding global climate catastrophe is in itself key to any real justice agenda.   And we're not going to avoid it unless we understand it.

Redefining Progress
Redefining Progress has been around for a long time, in a number of forms.  But it bears attention, now in particular, for the ways in which it brings different kinds of issues -- traditional grassroots environmental justice, state and regional climate policy, ecological footprint analysis, and even global climate justice activism -- under one roof.  A key organization with, we hope, a bright future.

Rising Tide
Rising Tide is the grandfather of anarcho-climate radicalism, and this site, which services a large network of mostly-UK based climate activists and action groups, is the place to go to find out what's its up to.  There's a large range of leaflets and factsheets, support for anti-road and anti-air activism, critiques of the negotiations, carbon trading.  Everything you'd expect! 

Stockholm Environment Institute US Center
SEI is one of the oldest groups in the climate game, but the US center is relatively new.  It's notable because it's staffers are hard core environmental scientists, but also visionaries working hard to find new ways forward, ways that are actually adequate to the challenge.  SEI-US is EcoEquity's principle partner in the Greenhouse Development Rights project.

Stop Climate Chaos
A very broad and diverse coalition of British environmental, development, and ecumenical organizations, SCC is notable  because it represents a level or coordination that US climate movements have not yet been able to achieve.  It's a good beginning.

Sustainable Energy and Environment Network
SEEN, based at Washington's Institute for Policy Studies, has long been a leader in the drive to reform (or abolish) the World Bank and, beyond that, to do whatever's necessary to drive renewables and justice to the center of the global institutional agenda.   And there's no reason to think that it's work will be done anytime soon.

Third World Network
Anti-globalization activists will know the Third World Network well, though until recently, TWN hasn't had much to do with climate politics.  This is changing though, and in a big way.  This is a link to TWN's climate page, and it's one to watch.

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
The UNFCCC's portal hosts all the documents from the official climate negotiations, and all sorts of related materials.  The Framework Convention is already law, by the way, even in the US.  George W. Bush's father signed it in 1992, and it has been ratified by the U.S. Senate.