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World Vision Australia
Australia World Vision is Australia’s largest charitable group. World Vision helps over 20 million people every year, thanks to the support of more than 400,000 Australians. Follow: World Vision...
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YWCA
Global The World Young Women’s Christian Association (World YWCA) is a global network of women leading social and economic change in 125 countries worldwide. Follow: World YWCA >> ….…………………. ……
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Global warming solutions: Australasia
Creative Commons: 350.org Solutions to global warming in Australia include aggressively reducing coal dependence while simultaneously implementing a price on carbon emissions and a national renewable...
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Global warming solutions: Island Nations
Creative Commons Small island states emit a very small percentage of overall heat-trapping warming emissions, yet face enormous consequences from climate change. This region’s response to global...
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Palau pushes for UN opinion on damage caused by greenhouse gases
Creative Commons: Nick Lucey The Pacific island nation of Palau recently announced its plan to seek an advisory opinion from a United Nations court on whether countries have a legal responsibility to...
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As seas rise, Tuvalu declares emergency over water shortage
The king tides in Tuvalu | Courtesy of: Florent Baarsch, 2011 The tiny Pacific island nation of Tuvalu has declared a state of emergency because of a severe shortage of fresh water. It has affected the...
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Graham Readfern: Australia gets a price on carbon, despite toxic anti-science...
Creative Commons: Takver, 2011 They paid millions of dollars for adverts on television, in newspapers and online. They flew in climate change deniers from across the globe. They held rallies, engaged...
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New Zealand oil spill kills 1,200 birds to date
Creative Commons: Jeremy CG, 2011 According to the New Zealand government an oil spill from a grounded container ship in the Bay of Plenty has killed 1,250 seabirds with hundreds of others in rescue...
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Global Call to Action Against Poverty
Netherlands The Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) is a growing alliance that brings together trade unions, INGOs, the women’s and youth movements, community and faith groups and others to...
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Greenpeace International
Global Greenpeace is an independently funded organization that works to protect the environment. We challenge government and industry to halt harmful practices by negotiating solutions, conducting...
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Islands First
Global Islands First assists the small island states by (1) building the capacity of their UN missions by providing highly trained, professional advisors, (2) creating and sustaining strategic networks...
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Report: Australian Alps could be bare of winter snow by 2050
Mt. Buller, Australian Alps- Creative Commons: Sally Cummings, 2008 A new government-commissioned report has a bleak outlook on the effects of climate change on alpine areas in Australia. The report,...
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OneClimate
Global The OneClimate team focuses on supporting the climate movement, as an essential component of the work of the OneWorld Group. Follow: OneClimate >> .. ……
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WWF International
Gland, Switzerland WWF is the world’s largest independent conservation organization working to stop the degradation of the planet’s natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in...
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Is cyanobacteria the next weapon against climate change?
Creative Commons: Ken-ichi Ueda, 2011 A microscopic plant no bigger than a pinhead could be the next weapon in the war on climate change. Cyanobacteria look like black slime and have been around since...
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Report: A two degree peak is still possible—if we act now
Creative Commons: NASA Goddard Photo & Video, 2011 A new report published in Nature Climate Change, by an international group of scientists, suggests that the goal of holding the average global...
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A victory for the optimists: Australian approves carbon tax
Courtesy: Australian Conservation Foundation, 2011 After years of work and months of tireless campaigning, the Australian Senate approved the Clean Energy Act today and helped bring one of the world’s...
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Researchers warn of climate change impacts on mental well-being
Creative Commons: Rae Allen, 2011 Following unusually heavy rains, the Australian state of Queensland found several of its cities under persistent floods in January this year. The Queensland Police...
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And Action! How our partners are making a better world this week
Courtesy: Christine Irvine, 2011 If there’s anything we’ve learned in the past few years of climate activism it is that every victory—momentous or incremental—deserves celebration. This week there is...
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Small island states reject proposal for a global climate deal by 2020
Creative Commons: Meredith James Johnstone, 2004 The Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) says it will not accept outcomes at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP17...
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Big step forward for Australia, more still required
Creative Commons: Gérard Métrailler, 2008 Australia’s new climate legislation is a historic breakthrough and a substantial step in the right direction, but is still not stringent enough to help the...
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2011 in Review
2011 was a year of changes and challenges. As millions suffered through the impacts of extreme weather and climate change, our partners in the climate movement rose up for them and with them. Together...
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New research shows ocean currents are climate ‘hot spots’
Creative Commons: NASA Goddard Photo and Video, 2011 A global study that assesses the temperature change in ocean currents has made two findings – one surprising, the other less so. The unsurprising...
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Climate change refugees consider Australia for new home
Maldives- Creative Commons: Victoria Holdsworth, Commonwealth Secretariat 2011 The President of what could be the first country in the world lost to climate change has urged Australia to prepare for a...
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Australians flee homes as floods threaten to engulf parts of the Northeast
Creative Commons: Martin Howard, 2011 Thousands of Australians fled their homes as floodwaters engulfed parts of the country’s northeast, damaging properties and ravaging crops a year after natural...
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And Action! How Tck partners are changing the world this week
Courtesy: Antonin Acquarone, 2012 We are only a few months from some major climate milestones this year and the movement is coming together with energy, creativity and bold action. From joining Warrior...
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Pacific Island nation of Kiribati plans mass relocation due to climate change
Creative Commons: Brad Hinton, 2010 Rising sea levels created by the melting of Earth’s polar ice caps and glaciers pose such a threat to the low-lying Pacific island nation of Kiribati that its leader...
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New report shows Australia’s climate warming at an alarming rate
K Latham, 2007 The snapshot, produced by the national science and weather agencies, found climate changes have been occurring at an increasingly rapid pace. It predicts fiercer storms, increased...
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Carbon emissions hit a new record
Creative Commons: Jim Flanagan, 2005 Greenhouse gases have risen to their highest level since modern humans evolved, and Australian temperatures are now about a degree warmer than they were a century...
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New report reveals water scarcity affecting 2.7 billion
Creative Commons: TckTckTck, 2012 Water scarcity impacts at least 2.7 billion people in 201 river basins for at least one month each year, according to a new report published in the online journal PLoS...
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Maldives ex-president vows to keep fighting for swift action on climate change
Creative Commons: Mat McDermott, 2009 When Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed resigned last month, many people outside the archipelago were shocked to hear the leader, famed for once holding a scuba...
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Plans for world’s largest coal port in the Great Barrier Reef delayed
Creative Commons: Paul Toogood, 2011 Less than two weeks ago we launched the beginning of a vital new campaign – to protect the Great Barrier Reef and our climate from the reckless expansion of the...
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Partner Spotlight: Earth Hour Network Team
Courtesy: Earth Hour Network, 2012 Every two weeks the TckTckTck team proudly recognizes one of the 300+ partner organizations making up our global climate movement. This time we’re thrilled to share a...
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The grass is greener in Perth, a water-scarce city adjusting to climate change
Creative Commons: Scott Davies, 2008 The capital of Western Australia, Perth, is at the epicenter of global climate change. The city’s strategic response offers lessons about climate change mitigation,...
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Scientists: Last 60 years in Australasia have been the hottest for a millennium
Creative Commons: Johnny Jet, 2009 The last 60 years have been the hottest in Australasia for a millennium and cannot be explained by natural causes, according to a new report by scientists that...
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Congratulations to Brittany Trilford, winner of a Date with History!
A school pupil from Wellington, New Zealand has been selected as winner of a global youth speech contest, to ‘speak truth to power’ and to inspire urgent action from world leaders and decision-makers...
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Australia creates world’s biggest marine park network
Creative Commons: Steve Evan, 2011 Yesterday Australia created the world’s biggest network of marine protected areas, setting an important precedent for ocean protection as countries prepare to meet...
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Greenpeace USA
Greenpeace is an independently funded organization that works to protect the environment. We challenge government and industry to halt harmful practices by negotiating solutions, conducting scientific...
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Man from drowning Pacific Island of Kiribati denied climate refugee status
Creative Commons: Brad Hinton, 2010 New Zealand immigration authorities have refused refugee status to a man who says the Pacific Island he has fled is sinking as a result of global warming. His...
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NPO Okinawa O.C.E.A.N.
Okinawa O.C.E.A.N. was formed in 1995 and has since encompassed a wide range of environmental activities. One of our main functions is to educate Okinawa’s youth on the importance of marine...
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Australian frog populations at great risk from climate change
Creative Commons: Clare Snow, 2011 In the battle for survival, the impact of climate change may tip the balance against Australia’s dwindling urban frog populations. “Who’d be a frog in the suburbs?”...
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Australians hold global twitterstorm encouraging leaders to support Kyoto2
Ahead of COP18, Oxfam climate campaigners are working hard to ensure Australia keeps its promises and signs up for a second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol. One of their tactics? Ensuring...
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Australia signs up for second phase of Kyoto Protocol
Creative Commons: Commonwealth Secretariat, 2011 Australia’s government says it is “ready to join” a second phase of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. Climate Minister Greg Combet said Australia...
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New Zealand disappoints by refusing to re-commit to Kyoto Protocol
Creative Commons: Sarah Marchildon, 2011 New Zealand’s government said Friday that it would not sign on for a second stage of the Kyoto Protocol climate treaty, a stance that angered environmentalists...
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Tokelau commits to 100 percent solar power
Creative Commons: Mike Baker, 2009 The island nation of Tokelau switched on the third and final installment of its new solar energy grid last week, earning praise around the world as the first country...
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Australian Prime Minister warns of more extreme heatwaves due to climate change
Courtesy: Australia Bureau of Meteorology, 2013 1/19/2013 Update: As the two weeks of extreme heat continue, Sydney recorded a new record temperature of 46.4 degrees C. Facing ‘unprecedented’ heat and...
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Australian governments get failing grade in Great Barrier Reef protection
The Great Barrier Reef | Credit: NASA Goddard Photo & Video As part of their joint Fight for the Reef campaign, WWF-Australia and the Australian Marine Conservation Society today released a...
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On the Record: Cindy Baxter, Kiwi climate activist
Courtesy of Cindy Baxter Every few weeks, we give the floor to leaders fighting for climate action. This time we spoke with Cindy Baxter in New Zealand to learn more about the battle to protect the...
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Join the smallactionsBIGCHANGE campaign
According to the 2011 Ministry of Environment report, New Zealanders produce more than 2.5 million tonnes of waste every year. 75% of which could have been saved. Creative Commons: Justin Henry, 2007...
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Four-fifths of New Zealand’s power came from renewables last year
Renewables constitute 80% of power generation in New Zealand in 2014 In 2014, 79.9% of the power in New Zealand came from renewable energy sources—representing the highest annual share of electricity...
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