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OneWorld Partners Focusing on Climate Change
Here are OneWorld partner organizations focusing on climate change. If your organization is not a OneWorld partner, click here for more information about joining the OneWorld community.

ActionAid International USA
ActionAid International USA works to create change on behalf of the poor and disenfranchised worldwide. In so doing, we advocate reforms that speak directly to decision-makers on key policies such as poverty reduction, trade, education, agriculture, and the expenditure of federal, IMF, and World Bank funds. In teaming with communities, development networks, and relief efforts worldwide, ActionAid International USA brings the voices of the impoverished to the forefront: acting as a bridge between American institutions and individuals, and those living in, and fighting poverty on five continents. For more information, contact Sandy Krawitz at Sandy.Krawitz[@]actionaid.org or (202) 835-1240.

Center for Global Development
Center for Global Development aims to reduce global poverty and inequality through research & engagement with the policy community & the public. For more information, contact Tony Kopetchny at TKopetchny@cgdev.org or (202) 416-0750.

Earth Policy Institute
Earth Policy Institute is an independent environmental research organization founded in May 2001 by Lester R. Brown. EPI is dedicated to building an environmentally sustainable economy—an eco-economy—and providing a plan for how to get from here to there. For more information, contact Janet Larsen at jlarsen[@]earth-policy.org or (202) 496-9290.

India Resource Center
India Resource Center provides a platform internationally for social movements in India. Our campaigns include Coca-Cola, water, South Asian diaspora, climate change and environmental justice. For more information, contact Amit Srivastava at amit[@]indiaresource.org or (415) 336-7584.

Integrative Strategies Forum
Integrative Strategies Forum (ISF) encourages and facilitates dialogue, partnerships, and integrative action strategies among networks and organizations working to build sustainable communities and societies. For more information, contact Karen Onthank at konthank[@]isforum.org or (301) 770-6375.

Network for New Energy Choices
Network for New Energy Choices (NNEC), a New York-based nonprofit launched in 2006, provides state and local governments with ideas and information on how to generate clean power from local, renewable energy resources. For more information, contact Chris Cooper at chris[@]newenergychoices.org or (212) 991-1830.

Post Carbon Institute
Post Carbon Institute is a think, action and education tank, which assists communities in the effort to relocalize and adapt to an energy constrained world. It offers research, project tools, education and information to implement proactive strategies to adapt to an energy constrained world. For more information, contact Celine Rich at celine[@]postcarbon.org or (604) 736-9000.

Student Movement for Real Change
The Student Movement for Real Change is a non-profit organization run by students that is working for other students around the world. Our mission is to be a leadership development organization that provides students in the United States a vehicle to advocate for positive change in neglected regions of the world. We empower students to become leaders, giving them opportunities to improve health and education in developing communities worldwide. For more information, contact Saul Garlick at office[@]studentmovementusa.org or (202) 518-3923.

SustainUS
SustainUS is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization of young people advancing sustainable development and youth empowerment in the United States. Through proactive education and advocacy at the policy-making level and at the grassroots, we are building a future in which all people recognize the inherent equality and interdependence of social, economic, and environmental sustainability. For more information, contact Catherine Manzo at cat[@]sustainus.org.

Worldwatch Institute
The Worldwatch Institute is an independent research organization that works for an environmentally sustainable and socially just society, in which the needs of all people are met without threatening the health of the natural environment or the well-being of future generations. By providing compelling, accessible, and fact-based analysis of critical global issues, Worldwatch inspires people around the world to demand new policies, investment patterns, and lifestyle choices. For more information, contact Andrew Wilkins, at awilkins[@]worldwatch.org or (202) 452-1999.

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