Recent entries to our list are marked NEW 

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General:

​www.globalwitness.org: an investigative and campaigning organization focused on exposing the links between environmental destruction, conflict, corruption, and human rights abuses;

Finance (banks, insurance and pensions)

www.banktrack.org: An international tracking, campaigning and civil society support organisation targeting private sector commercial banks;

www.thepath.co.uk: Advice on ethical pensions, savings and investments;

www.bankingonclimatechaos.org: Reports on banks worldwide and their investments in fossil fuels;

www.bank.green: Some Local Councils are now suggesting how you can switch your bank account.  Bank.Green is sounding the alarm on the climate-destroying activities of banks while recommending sustainable alternatives and empowering consumer action. 

https://bankbetter.uk/about/bad-banks guides people to good and bad places to put their money. Lists and grades banks etc on what (if any) investments they have in Fossil Fuels companies, Arms Companies complicit in Gaza, Companies involved in occupying Palestine & Arms Companies making nuclear weapons.

www.shareaction.org Promotes Responsible Investment, and aims to improve corporate behaviour on environmental, social and governance issues.

Child-focused resources:

www.climateambassadors.org.uk: They recruit experienced volunteers to facilitate links with schools and offer their expertise

www.letsgozero.org: Climate Action Advisors go into schools to raise difficult to talk about climate issues.

Others: 

www.clientearth.org: An environmental law organization that works to use the law to protect life on Earth;                                                      www.carbonbrief.org: A UK-based website covering the latest developments in climate science, climate policy and energy policy;

www.mymothertree.com can calculate how green your money is (or not) and suggest alternatives; www.projectdandelion.com: A woman-led global campaign for climate justice. 

www.desmog.com investigates and reports on misinformation campaigns and organizations opposing climate science and action

​www.divest.org.uk : UK Divest  is a network of hundreds of campaigners across the UK that call for fossil fuel divestment, eg by pension funds and local government.

www.writetothem.com: Here you can write to your local MP or local Councillors. You start by merely putting in your UK post code.

NEW: www.theyworkforyou.com  If you want to check your MP's track record.  
www.bluemarinefoundation.com is a charity dedicated to restoring the ocean to health by addressing overfishing.

www.U3a.org.uk: The University of the Third Age, one of the largest educational institutions in the UK, has about 1 000 local groups - about 110 of these focus on climate change/ the environment.

​Positive/hopeful news:  

NEW  www.fixthenews.com: Look for "I should never have given a TED talk" Solutions journalist Angus Hervey uses a TED talk to focus on a more hopeful narrative.

NEW www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com: Scientist Hannah Ritchie has a series of programmes about the opportunities for hopeful changes.

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INTERNATIONAL EVENTS 2025​

10-21 November  2025 COP30 (United Nations Climate Summit) in Brazil. The aim of the Councils of Parties has been to "to keep the global temperature increase well below 2 °C, with efforts to limit it to 1.5 °C". In 2024, global average temperatures first exceeded 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels for the first time in a calendar year. ​

The resumed UN Biodiversity Conference (COP16 CBD), took place in Rome in February this year.  Despite being hailed by some as a success story for international co-operation, current trade disputes. debt worries and the slashing of overseas aid will present a challenge to COP17 in Armenia in November next year.

11-13 December 2025: Paris 10. Climate Grandparents groups across Europe will be marking the tenth anniversary of the signing of the Paris Climate agreement.​​

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