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Biopact is a non-profit volunteer organisation connecting African and European citizens. It seeks to establish a 'mutually beneficial' biofuel and bioenergy relationship between the two continents. The group is web-based, and provides consulting services for a number of initiatives, including various bioenergy projects in the South.
Some of Biopact's ongoing projects include compiling an 'atlas' of biofuel production for use in estimating production factors, and exploiting Nica fruticans, a potential Nigerian biofuel crop.
The Climate Action Network is a global network of over 287 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) working to promote government and individual action to limit human-induced climate change to ecologically sustainable levels. CAN plays an active role in climate treaty negotiations, when it provides live progress reports throught its 'ECO' newsletter.
ClimateConcern is an unmoderated worldwide interactive emailing forum for scientific and policy debate, collaboration, networking on global climate change issues, climate prediction processes and determination of human influence on climate and assessment of the social and economic factors that drive climate change including greenhouse gas emissions.
FOEI disputes that genetically modified crops are safe and argues that genetic engineering is unsustainable. It claims to be the 'largest grassroots environmental network' in the world, with 1.5 million members. Its website on genetically modified organisms contains campaign materials and meeting reports on biosafety, hunger and food aid, contamination and corporate control. Group activity notices and a set of frequently asked questions are also provided.
OneWorld is an online civil society network, which campaigns for equitable and sustainable distribution of wealth amongst the world's population, underpinned by global attainment and protection of human rights and by governance structures which permit local communities control over their own affairs. The climate change campaign website provides a collection of news, background information and possible solutions from organisations involved with the OneWorld network on key issues.
The Pew Center is a non-profit, non-partisan and independent organisation in the United States, dedicated to providing credible information, straight answers and innovative solutions in the effort to address global climate change. Established in 1998 by the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Center aims to educate the public and key policy makers about the causes and potential consequences of climate change, particularly through publishing reports on environmental impacts, economics and policy issues.
SPRERI, based in Anand, India, was established in 1979. The institute aims to be a centre of excellence for renewable energies development, and promotes the use of renewables across the country.
WWF's mission is to stop the degradation of the planet's natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature. Its climate change campaign works to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide by putting pressure on industrialised countries, attempting to get legislation passed to reduce emissions in the power sector, seeking solutions in developing countries to significantly reduce greenhouse gases, looking to reduce global warming through renewable energies, and helping communities to adapt to climate change.
