By adopting a number of practical low-carbon technologies, we can bring the climate change problem under control at modest cost, indeed a far lower cost than the horrendous climate risks we face with business as usual.
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U.S. military spending in 2006 was nearly equal to the military spending of the rest of the world combined.
China is adding the equivalent of 500-megawatt coal-fired plants per week - the total capacity of the UK power grid.
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Human pressures on the Earth’s ecosystems and climate, unless mitigated substantially, will cause dangerous climate change, massive species extinctions, and the destruction of vital life-support functions.
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We have reached the beginning of the twenty-first century with a very crowded planet: 6.6 billion people living in an interconnected global economy producing an astounding $60 trillion of output each year.
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One sixth of the world remains trapped in extreme poverty unrelieved by global economic growth, and the poverty trap poses tragic hardships for the poor and great risks for the rest of the world.
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ActionAid
ActionAid is an international development agency whose aim is to fight poverty worldwide. In all of its country programmes it works with local partners to make the most of their knowledge and experience.
Ard, Inc
Ard is a company that helps people across the world create the essential conditions for successful economic development.
Bread for the World
Bread for the World is a nationwide Christian citizens movement seeking justice for the world's hungry people by lobbying decision makers in the United States of America.
CARE USA
CARE is one of the world's leading humanitarian organizations fighting global poverty through projects in agriculture and natural resources, economic development, education, food, health, water and sanitation, and emergency response.
Climate Change Research Centre
The Climate Change Research Center studies the chemical and dynamical environment of the Earth's atmosphere using sophisticated observational and modeling tools.
Compassion International
Compassion International is a Christian child development organization that partners with local churches in developing countries to release children from their social, economic, physical and spiritual poverty.
DATA
DATA aims to raise awareness about, and spark response to the crises swamping Africa: unpayable Debts, uncontrolled spread of AIDS, and unfair trade rules which keep Africans poor.
Demographic and Health Surveys
The Demographic and Health Surveys project provides technical assistance to surveys around the world, advancing global understanding of health and population trends in developing countries.
Department for International Development (DfID, UK)
The Department for International Development (DFID) is the part of the UK Government that manages Britain's aid to poor countries and works to get rid of extreme poverty.
The Earth Institute at Columbia University
The Earth Institute is the world’s leading academic center confronting the practical challenges of sustainable development. Recognized for its scientific rigor, technological innovation, intellectual leadership and interdisciplinary approach, The Earth Institute is dedicated to finding effective solutions to humanity’s most urgent challenges.
Engineers Without Borders Canada
Engineers Without Borders Canada is an multiple-award winning aid organisation that enables poor communities around the world to improve their lives by helping them gain access to appropriate technologies. Our volunteers work overseas with partners, entrepreneurs, and communities to help them build capacity in areas like water and sanitation, agriculture and crop production, and rural energy and food processing. Closer to home, our 10,000 members undertake a number of outreach activities to promote global citizenship in Canada - which centers around how Canada can better help support the Millennium Development Goals.
Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)
The Federation of Earth Science Information Partners ("Federation") is a network of researchers and associated groups that collects, interprets and develops applications for satellite-generated Earth observation information.
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO acts as a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate agreements and debate policy.
Friends of the Global Fight
Friends of the Global Fight encourages public leadership to support the global fight, particularly the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, tuberculosis and Malaria. Friends also aims to mobilize the actions and contributions of private Americans, whose support can make a difference to millions and whose voice will underlie public commitments.
The Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria was created to dramatically increase resources to fight three of the world's most devastating diseases, and to direct those resources to areas of greatest need. As a partnership between governments, civil society, the private sector and affected communities, the Global Fund represents an innovative approach to international health financing.
Heifer International
Heifer's mission is to end global hunger. They envision a world of communities living together in peace and equitably sharing the resources of a healthy planet. The mission of the organization is to work with communities to end hunger and poverty and to care for the earth. To "pass on the gift" is their strategy. As people share their animals' offspring with others - along with their knowledge, resources, and skills - an expanding network of hope, dignity, and self-reliance is created that reaches around the globe.
The Hunger Project
The Hunger Project is a strategic organization and global movement committed to the sustainable end of world hunger.
Institute of Development Studies
The Institute of Development Studies is a leading global organisation for research, teaching and communications on international development.
InterAction
InterAction is the largest alliance of US-based international development and humanitarian non-governmental organizations.
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
IFPRI's mission is to provide policy solutions that cut hunger and malnutrition.
International Institute for Advanced Systems Analysis (IIASA)
The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) is an international research organization that conducts inter-disciplinary scientific studies on environmental, economic, technological, and social issues in the context of human dimensions of global change.
International Medical Corps.
International Medical Corps is a global humanitarian nonprofit organization that saves lives, relieves suffering and restores self-reliance through health care training and relief and development programs.
International Rescue Committee
Founded in 1933, the International Rescue Committee is one of the world's largest nonsectarian, nonprofit organizations providing relief, rehabilitation, protection and resettlement services for refugees, displaced persons and victims of oppression.
International Union for the Conservation of Nature
IUCN works to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable.
International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP)
The IUSSP is a non-profit worldwide association of population specialists with the aim of drawing the attention of governments, international governmental and non-governmental organizations, and the general PUBLIC to population problems and to promote demography as a science.
Malaria No More
Malaria No More works to end deaths due to Malaria by raising the profile of the disease among the public, policymakers, and businesses, while engaging the private sector to provide life-saving bed nets and other critical interventions to families in Africa.
Mercy Corps
Mercy Corps is a not-for-profit organization that exists to alleviate suffering, poverty, and oppression by helping people build secure, productive, and just communities.
Millennium Promise
Millennium Promise works with impoverished communities, national and local governments, and partner organizations to implement high-impact programs aimed at transforming lives on the continent and engaging donor nations, corporations, and the general public in the effort to achieve the MDGs.
Millennium Villages Project-The Earth Institute at Columbia University
The Millennium Villages Project is a new global approach to lift developing country villages out of the poverty trap that afflicts more than a billion people worldwide. The Earth Institute launched the Millennium Villages project in March 2005 and over the next five years, expects to expand the number of villages in Africa as well as adding villages in other parts of the developing world.
NatureServe
NatureServe is a non-profit conservation organization whose mission is to provide the scientific basis for effective conservation action.
One Village One World
One Village One World is a non-profit formed to contribute to the work of Millennium Promise Alliance and its commitment to the eradication of extreme poverty by 2025. The founders of One Village One World aim to create awareness around this mission through presentations at schools, religious organizations and other business or community events; their ultimate goal is to mobilize enough community resources to financially support a Millennium Village.
Oxfam America
Oxfam America helps poor and marginalized communities around the world harness economic opportunities and advocate for their rights (e.g., women's rights, labor rights, indigenous peoples' rights) through grant-making, campaigning, and emergency assistance.
Population Council
The Population Council conducts research worldwide to improve policies, programs, and products in three areas: HIV and AIDS; poverty, gender, and youth; and reproductive health.
Poverty Mapping Project
Promotes the use of poverty maps in policy making and targeting assistance, particularly in the areas of food security and environmental management.
Plan USA
Plan USA is a global partnership of caring people founded in 1937 to bring hope and help to the world's poorest children. Our community-based programs assist more than 10 million children in 45 developing countries.
RESULTS
RESULTS is a nonprofit grassroots advocacy organization, committed to creating the political will to end hunger and the worst aspects of poverty.
Right to Play
Right To Play is a humanitarian organization using sport and play programs to encourage the healthy physical, social and emotional development of the worldís most disadvantaged children.
Save the Children
For more than 70 years, Save the Children has created real and lasting change for children in need in more than 40 countries around the globe, including the United States.
Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
The Tyndall Centre brings together scientists, economists, engineers and social scientists, who together are working to develop sustainable responses to climate change through trans-disciplinary research and dialogue on both a national and international level.
United Nations Development Program
UNDP is the UN's global development network, an organization advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life.
United Nations Environment Program
UNEP aims to provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
UNFPA supports countries in using population data for policies and programmes to reduce poverty and to ensure that every pregnancy is wanted, every birth is safe, every young person is free of HIV/AIDS, and every girl and woman is treated with dignity and respect.
United States Transparency International
Transparency International (TI) is the leading global non-governmental organisation devoted to combating corruption. TI has chapters in 92 countries on every continent.
Water Aid
WaterAid is an international NGO dedicated exclusively to the provision of safe domestic water, sanitation and hygiene education to the world's poorest people.
The Wildlife Trust
The Wildlife Trust empowers local conservation scientists worldwide to protect nature and safeguard ecosystem and human health.
The World Bank
The World Bank is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world.
World Concern
A Christian humanitarian organization that provides emergency relief and community development in some of the most neglected areas of the world.
World Vision
World Vision is a Christian relief and development organization dedicated to helping children and their communities worldwide reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty.
