#alternate Edit this page Wikipedia (en) Climate movement From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia -- Countries by Climate change performance Index The climate movement is the collective of nongovernmental organizations engaged in activism related to the issues of climate change. It is a subset of the broader environmental movement, but some regard it as a new social movement itself given its scope, strength, and activities. [ ] -- + 2.5 Youth Climate Strikes + 2.6 Global Climate Strike * 3 Roles of other movements * 4 Methods * 5 Targeting of activists -- History[edit] The climate movement has rapidly evolved in the first decades of the 21st century, starting as one of the many causes of the environmental movement. Activism related to climate change began in the 1990s, when major -- climate, mainly in the UNFCCC framework. In the 2000s several climate-specific organizations were founded, such as 350.org, Energy Action Coalition, and the Global Call for Climate Action. Mobilization for Copenhagen 2009[edit] The 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen was the first UNFCCC summit in which the climate movement started showing its mobilization power at a large scale. Between 40,000 and 100,000 people attended a march in Copenhagen on December 12 calling for a global -- People's Climate March (2017) The People's Climate March 2014, brought together hundreds of thousands of people for strong action on climate change. The climate movement convened its largest single event on 21 September 2014, when it mobilized 400,000 activists in New York during the People’s Climate March (plus several thousand more in other cities), organized by the People's Climate Movement, to demand climate action from the global leaders gathered for the 2014 UN Climate Summit.^[3]^[4] -- Fossil Fuel Divestment[edit] The Fossil Fuel Divestment movement calls for colleges and universities, as well as cities, states, religious institutions, and pension funds to withdraw their investments from fossil fuel companies. -- explains that the reasoning behind this campaign is simple: "If it is wrong to wreck the climate, then it is wrong to profit from that wreckage."^[5] The Fossil Fuel Divestment movement escalated tactics in the spring of 2015, with 19 students arrested at Yale University, a week-long blockade of Harvard University's administrative buildings, a 70-student sit-in at Tulane University, and other arrestable actions.^[6]^[7]^[8] Climate Mobilization[edit] -- Main article: The Climate Mobilization Since 2014, growing portions of the climate movement, especially in the United States have been organizing for an international economic response to climate change on the scale of the mobilization of the -- doesn't mean a diverse group of participants."^[12] The Youth Climate Strike on March 15, 2019, included students from 47 countries and over almost all 50 States participating in the movement. ^[13] Global Climate Strike[edit] -- Between 20 and 27 September, 2019 was the Global Climate Strike. This appeal mobilized a record 7.6 million people take to the streets and strike for climate action. The biggest climate mobilisation in history. The strike was followed in more than 185 countries.^[14] In some of these countries, the call exceeded the student character and was called at the labor level by some unions as happened in Italy.^[15] Roles of other movements[edit] The climate movement is closely connected to other parts of the environmental movement, in particular groups aiming for a sustainable society and sustainable energy. Also, the faith community has been active in the climate movement, both at an interfaith level (such as in Our Voices) and at the specific level of each denomination (such as the Global Catholic Climate Movement). With this movement, new youth international organizations have emerged to join the climate change movement such as Fridays for Future^[16] or Extinction Rebellion.^[17] Methods[edit] -- See also[edit] * Business action on climate change * Environmental movement * Ecological movement * Environmental racism * List of environmental protests -- October 2009. 3. ^ Alter, Charlotte (September 21, 2014). "Hundreds of Thousands Converge on New York to Demand Climate-Change Action". New York: time.com. Retrieved December 30, 2014. 4. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-10-14. -- children', school strike founder tells climate summit". The Guardian. 12. ^ "The climate movement needs more people like me". Grist. 2019-03-25. Retrieved 2019-10-14. 13. ^ "10 things you've always wanted to ask the students skipping -- attitudes to climate change and mitigation behavior". Envigogika. 13 (2). doi:10.14712/18023061.563. ISSN 1802-3061. 19. ^ Holdo, Markus. "Sincerity as Strategy: Green Movements and the Problem of Reconciling Deliberative and Instrumental". Environmental Politics. 28 (4). doi:10.1080/09644016.2018.1457294. -- Environmental Activists in Domestic Terror Investigations: Protesters Were Characterized as a Threat to National Security in What One Calls an Attempt to Criminalize their Actions" 21. ^ The Guardian, 11 June 2020, "Hack-for-Hire Group Targeted Climate Activists behind #ExxonKnew Campaign" -- * A coloured voting box.svg Politics portal * Change in Average Temperature.svg Global warming portal * Social sciences.svg Society portal Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Climate_movement&oldid=9869 21076" Categories: