Wonderful that you want to connect to other youth in the world! Alone we can  achieve very little, but together we are strong, and CAN change the world. Good luck, and THANK YOU for being courageous, strong, smart, and optimistic enough to know that YOU matter.

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Cascade Climate Network
"As youth of the Pacific Northwest, we recognize that the climate crisis we currently face presents the defining challenge of our generation.  Solving it is our greatest opportunity."

Children in a changing climate
Children across the world are being inspired to take action to tackle climate change and build a sustainable future, whether helping their  community to adapt, or lobbying their governments to cut their carbon  emissions. ccc-action is supporting children to tell their stories and share  experiences, and to gain further knowledge, skills and motivation to  adapt to the challenges ahead. Through global online discussion forums  designed by children for children, they will be able to share knowledge, perceptions, and views on climate change with each other and adults.

Children's Rights Information Network
CRIN is a global network coordinating and promoting information and  action on child rights. Almost 2,000 member organisations and tens of  thousands more activists from across the world rely on CRIN for research and information. CRIN presses for rights, not charity, for children and is guided by a passion for putting childrens rights at the top of the  global agenda by addressing root causes and promoting systematic change. Its guiding framework is the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child  (CRC). CRINs activities are based on the belief that information is a  powerful tool for realising childrens rights. CRIN distributes news,  events and reports, lobbies, enables advocacy and promotes knowledge  sharing and coordination. CRIN participates in international child  rights coalitions and advocacy groups, supports campaigns and makes the  UN and regional mechanisms more accessible to those lobbying for social change.

European Children's Network
The European Children's Network - EURONET - is a coalition of  networks and organisations campaigning for the interests and rights of  children (defined in the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child  as all persons under 18 years of age). They share a common concern that  children's rights should be taken into account in all EU legislation,  policies and programmes which have an impact on children's rights.

European Youth Forum
The European Youth Forum (YFJ) is a platform made up of 99 National Youth  Councils and international youth NGOs from across Europe. The YFJ works to empower young people to participate actively in society and improve  their living conditions by representing their interests towards the  European Institutions, the Council of Europe, the United Nations and  other partners active in the youth field.

European Youth Portal
If you are thinking of going to another European country to study or  work, or on holiday... if you are looking for activities or  opportunities in Europe... if you have something to say, or ask, about  European issues, this portal could be a good place to start! It offers  you information, news and discussions - all about Europe and relevant to young people.

FiredUp Media
Our purposes is to expand the knowledge base and resources for all the  youth climate bloggers and activists out there, we have launched the  Fired Up Media Online Organizing Wiki. It will try and showcase the best resources, materials, links, and lessons learned from the new media and online organizing work we have been doing.

Focus the Nation
Focus the Nation is the countrys leading clean energy youth empowerment organization. Since 2008, we have helped more than 300,000 young people embrace the challenges, excitement and realities of moving their  communities toward clean energy solutions.

Inconvenient Youth
This is a place where teenagers can share their inconvenient actions and ideas to help solve the climate crisis and lead our society to a sustainable future.

It's getting hot in here
It´s Getting Hot in Here is the voice of a growing movement. A  community media project, it features the student and youth leaders from  the movement to stop global warming and to build a more just and  sustainable future.

KidsCall
KidsCall is the international Youth Campaign by the World Future Council. We are writing to the most important politicians in the world to save life on Earth! Will you join us?

KidEarth
I am a 12 year old boy who likes music and doesn’t like global warming. I am not old enough to solve the problem. But I am old enough to convince others to try by having school children from Africa, South America, Europe, Asia and North America sing my “100 Generations” song with me. That way, the world can hear that children everywhere care about the integrity of nature we are taking for granted, and everyone can feel our hope that the earth will stop warming soon.

National Geographic
A great place for games, activities, networking, and information

OneClimate
One world, one climate, one chance. Join this global network!

Peace Child International
This network empowers young people to be the change they want to see in the world. With its simple mission to Empower Young People PCI has supported  young people around the world to produce books and musicals on their  major generational challenges, funded youth to undertake community-based action projects of their own and created the World Youth Congress  series.

SEAC
Student Environmental Action Coalition.

TakingITGlobal
This is an online community that connects youth to find inspiration, access information, get involved, and take action in their local and global communities. It's the world's most popular online community for young people interested in making a difference, with hundreds of thousands of unique visitors each month. TIG's highly interactive website provides a platform for expression, connection to opportunities, and support for action. Join now and connect with thousands of other young people around the world!

The World Trust Network Portal
World Trust Network is the online community that connects youth around the  world in our SOCIAL ACTION NETWORK for Earth Heroes (ages 9-17) and  Young Leaders (ages 18-26). Content and curriculum is also being created to expand the vision to include a VIRTUAL CLASSROOM  component to  connect experts in the fields of education and edu-tainment to the  classroom, home-schooling, museums; as well as detention centers and  juvenile homes to assist the at-risk youth.

ThreeDotDash
Three Dot Dash® is a global initiative of the We Are Family Foundation® designed to recognize and support the efforts of Global Teen Leaders around the world who are actively working on projects that promote a  more peaceful society by addressing issues related to basic human needs: food, water, health, shelter, safety, education and the environment.

Tree Musketeers
Marcie the Marvelous Tree inspired third graders in 1987 to launch TREE MUSKETEERS as the nation´s first youth environmental organization “a nonprofit  charity where kids are boss! While taking action to help the planet,  kids teach other kids to become active citizens and community leaders.  Neighborhood by neighborhood, kids can rescue Earth!

UNEP-Tunza
TUNZA is a word in Kiswahili (the common language of most East  African countries) that means to "treat with care".The programme is  based on a strategy that aims to provide young people with information  and tools on how to "treat Mother Earth with care" and how to Act for a  better world. UNEP works in partnership with Children from all over the  world. Children are represented by Junior Board which is elected every 2 years during UNEP's TUNZA International Children's Conference.

The World Trust Foundation
The World Trust Foundation has been working since 1994 to create a  place for collaboration instead of competition in the nonprofit arena,  and, to empower youth around the world to come together, locally and  internationally, to learn, think and take action that impacts positive  change in their lives, in their communities and in the global community  as a whole. The vision of the World Trust Foundation is to help the  youth of the world communicate through all forms of media to come to  know and understand each other individually and to understand each  other´s culture, heritage and values. The underlying assumption is that knowledge brings understanding and that the youth of the world are  better able to overcome cultural differences and find new and creative  ways to impact change. The World Trust Foundation encourages youth to go beyond learning and engage in creative thinking and problem solving and to take action that turns conversation into meaningful change.  The  World Trust has identified five key areas of focus for implementing  positive change in the world:

Yes!
Founded in 1990 by two teenagers, YES! is a nonprofit organization that  connects, inspires and collaborates with young changemakers to join  forces for a thriving, just and sustainable ways of life for all. Our  three program areas are Global Leadership Jams, Leveraging Privilege for Social Change, and Supporting Aligned Movements.  We work at the  meeting point of internal, interpersonal, and systemic transformation.

YouthVoice
UNICEF UK Youth Voice: Know your rights. Use them. Change the world for children. UNICEF UK Youth Voice is a network  of young people, aged 11-18, who are committed to children´s rights. By  fundraising, campaigning, and telling it like it is, you can speak up  for the world´s children, adding your voice to theirs.

Youth and the UN
The UN Programme on Youth is the focal point on youth  within the United Nations. It aims to build an awareness of the global  situation of young people, as well as promote their rights and  aspirations. The Programme also works towards greater participation of  young people in decision-making as a means of achieving peace and  development.

Yunga
The Youth and United Nations Global Alliance  (YUNGA) is intended to facilitate collaboration between UN agencies and  other organizations working with children and young people (such as  schools, youth and civil society groups, NGOs and government  institutions). The objective is to create a gateway to facilitate the  engagement of young people in activities of key environmental and social concern at the local and international level.

 

 

Networks for Adults

Action for a Global Climate Community
Thisis a non-profit organisation that convenes talks between government officials, climate specialists, and civil society groups over the world toward creating a Global Climate Community based on equity, solidarity and  shared responsibility.

Climate Action Network (CAN)
The Climate Action Network (CAN) is a worldwide network of over 430  Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) working to promote government and  individual action to limit human-induced climate change to ecologically  sustainable levels.

CAN Europe
Climate Action Network Europe (CAN-E) is recognised as Europe's leading network working on climate and energy issues. With over 100 members in 25 european countries, CAN-E unites to work to prevent dangerous  climate change and promote sustainable energy and environment policy in  Europe.

Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN)
The CLEAN project, a part of the National Science Digital Library,  provides a reviewed collection of resources coupled with the tools to  enable an online community to share and discuss teaching about climate  and energy science.

Connect for Climate (C4C).
Connect4Climate is a campaign, a  coalition, and a community that cares about climate change. The goal of  Connect4Climate is to create a participatory, open knowledge platform  that engages the global community in climate change conversation to  drive local action through advocacy, operational support, research, and  capacity building.

Copenhagen Climate Council
Welcome to the Climate Community. A new innovative  Web platform on climate change solutions. The Climate Community provides high-quality news, interviews, solutions, climate intelligence, and virtual discussions.

E-parliament
Anyone can participate in the e-Parliament by registering on the e-Parliament website. You can find innovative policy ideas in our hearing reports, briefing  papers and ideas bank. Or you can take a more active role: taking part  in advisory votes and adding your comments or suggestions, contributing ideas into our database, or posing or answering questions on the website.

Eurocities
EUROCITIES is the network of major European  cities. Founded in 1986, the network brings together the local  governments of more than 130 large cities in over 30 European countries. EUROCITIES provides a platform for its member  cities to share knowledge and ideas, to exchange experiences, to analyse common problems and develop innovative solutions, through a wide range  of Forums, Working Groups, Projects, activities and events.

Friends of the earth
We are the world's largest grassroots environmental network, uniting 77 national member  groups and some 5,000 local activist groups on every continent. With  over 2 million members and supporters around the world, we campaign on  today's most urgent environmental and social issues. We challenge the  current model of economic and corporate globalization, and promote  solutions that will help to create environmentally sustainable and  socially just societies.

GEF-NGO Network
The Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Network of the Global  Environment Facility (GEF), now known as the GEF-NGO Network, was  established in May, 1995. It was the result of a GEF Council decision to establish a formal dialogue and partnership between NGOs worldwide and  the GEF Secretariat, the GEF Council, the GEF Assembly and various  partner agencies.

Global Exchange
Global Exchange is a membership-based international human rights  organization dedicated to promoting social, economic and environmental  justice around the world.

Global Network for Disaster Reduction
The role of NGOs is essential in building the resilience of local  communities to disasters and supporting local-level implementation of  the Hyogo Framework for Action. A comprehensive approach to DRR requires a combination of changes in practices at the local level with changes  to national and international policies.

The Climate Reality Project
The Climate Reality Project is bringing the facts about the climate crisis into the mainstream and engaging the public in conversation about how to solve it. We help citizens around the world discover the truth and take meaningful steps to bring about change.

Wiser Earth
WiserEarth is an online community space connecting the people,  nonprofits and businesses working toward a just and sustainable world