Advocacy in Action: Climate Change

On this episode, we turn to nonprofits that are tackling nothing less than an existential crisis—climate change. Learn more about how some organizations are tackling this, and how that fits within the laws governing their work. Lawyers for this episode Tim Mooney Quyen Tu Jen Powis Show Notes Non-lobbying advocacy Corporate work - Lawyers for Netzero Education - The Beginning of the End of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Research - Climate Central, Union of Concerned Scientists, Carbon180 Public protest/demonstration Administrative advocacy with the EPA or state based DEQs - Bayou City Waterkeeper International/Treaties Governments in partnership with numerous private foundations, a $1.6 billion pledge to support indigenous communities at the COP26 climate summit. Coalition for Rainforest Nations Electoral Nonpartisan Earthjustice Conservation Lands Foundation Partisan work Sierra Club’s PACs Sunrise PAC Ballot Measures   Resources Bayou City Waterkeeper Carbon180 Clean up in of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Climate Central Coalition for Rainforest Nations Ford Foundation press release The Ocean Cleanup Union of Concerned Scientists