The Problem

Climate Change Basics
Scientists are in agreement. Climate change is occurring and it’s occurring largely as the result of greenhouse gas emissions from human activities. The affects of global climate change will vary significantly by region and geography, but it is certain that we must reduce greenhouse gas emissions drastically in order to protect our children’s health and future from the threats of climate change.

The connection between climate change and low-income groups
Low-income and other disadvantaged households have unaffordable home energy bills and pay a disproportionate amount of household income towards those bills in comparison with higher income households. With rising temperatures, human lives—particularly in low-income, senior, and minority communities—are affected by compromised health, financial burdens, and social and cultural disruptions. These communities are the first to experience the negative impacts of climate change such as heat-related illness and death, respiratory illness, infectious diseases, unaffordable rises in energy costs, and extreme natural disasters.

The People's Climate Project works to address the human side of climate change, bringing people together to help their neighbors and help the Earth.

Important Links
Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative
The Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative (EJCC) is a diverse coalition of U.S. environmental justice, religious, climate justice, policy and advocacy networks working for climate justice.

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is one of the nation’s premier policy organizations working at the federal and state levels on fiscal policy and public programs that affect low- and moderate-income families and individuals.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
The role of the IPCC is to assess on a comprehensive, objective, open and transparent basis the scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant to understanding the scientific basis of risk of human-induced climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation.

Pew Center on Global Climate Change
Over the past ten years, the Pew Center has issued over 100 reports from top-tier researchers on key climate topics such as economic and environmental impacts and practical domestic and international policy solutions.

Alliance for Climate Protection
The Alliance for Climate Protection is a new single-purpose organization to persuade people of the importance, urgency and feasibility of adopting and implementing effective and comprehensive solutions for the climate crisis.

David Suzuki Foundation
The David Suzuki Foundation provides resources, information, and helpful links in understanding climate change science, its impacts on wildlife and human health, and practical, cost-effective solutions.

Presidential Climate Action Project
The Presidential Climate Action Project has developed a bold, comprehensive and non-partisan plan for presidential leadership rooted in climate science and designed to ignite innovation at every level of the American economy.

The average US household emits 21 tons of planet-warming CO₂ every year. What's your impact?

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