Web Resources for Armchair Activists
Recent entries to our list are marked NEW
General:
www.globalwitness.org: an investigative and campaigning organization focused on exposing the links between environmental destruction, conflict, corruption, and human rights abuses;
https://www.theclimatecoalition.org/ We have recently become members of this huge umbrella organization.
Finance (banks, insurance and pensions)
www.banktrack.org: An international tracking, campaigning and civil society support organisation targeting private sector commercial banks;
www.thepath.co.uk: Advice on ethical pensions, savings and investments;
www.bankingonclimatechaos.org: Reports on banks worldwide and their investments in fossil fuels;
www.bank.green: Some Local Councils are now suggesting how you can switch your bank account. Bank Green is sounding the alarm on the climate-destroying activities of banks while recommending sustainable alternatives and empowering consumer action.
www.bankbetter.uk guides people to good and bad places to put their money. Lists and grades banks etc on what (if any) investments they have in Fossil Fuels companies, Arms Companies complicit in Gaza, Companies involved in occupying Palestine & Arms Companies making nuclear weapons.
www.shareaction.org Promotes Responsible Investment, and aims to improve corporate behaviour on environmental, social and governance issues.
Child-focused resources:
www.climateambassadors.org.uk They recruit experienced volunteers to facilitate links with schools and offer their expertise
www.letsgozero.org Climate Action Advisors go into schools to raise difficult to talk about climate issues.
Talking with children: Young Armchairs
www.climatekids.nasa.gov/climate-change-meaning/ Climate Kids: brushing up on your climate science
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/groups/c9m19lvv7r2t BBC has a number of resources that can be filtered according to children’s ages
https://www.climatevisuals.org/ UNICEF recommends this website
https://earthshotprize.org/ Prince William’s Earthshot Prize website provides some examples of solutions that children (and others) can relate to.
Young Activists’ websites:
https://www.unicef.org/stories/young-climate-activists-demand-action-inspire-hope: Something for young activists
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/2oGKKAMjRfQ?autoplay=0&start=0&rel=0&modestbranding=0&mute=1&loop=0&controls=1 : A 3-minute video for young climate activists.
Act 4 Food, Act 4 change. A global youth movement campaigning for food systems transformation
www.gndrising.org Green New Deal Rising campaigns on income inequality (eg Wealth tax) which is closely linked with climate collapse.
Positive/hopeful news:
www.fixthenews.com Look for "I should never have given a TED talk" Solutions journalist Angus Hervey uses a TED talk to focus on a more hopeful narrative.
www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com Scientist Hannah Ritchie has a series of programmes about the opportunities for hopeful changes.
Abi Dare "And So I Roar" (2025). Winner of Climate Fiction Prize 2025.
NEW: Tony Duckenfield's new book "How to Reduce Your Carbon Emissions and save Money" is now published. Click here for details.
INTERNATIONAL EVENTS 2025
10 - 21 November 2025: COP30 (united Nations Climate Summit) in Brazil. The aim of the councils of parties has been "to keep the global temperature increase well below 2 °C with efforts to limit it to 1.5 °C". In 2024 the global average temperature first exceeded 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels for the first time in a calendar year.
11 - 13 December 2025: Paris 10. Climate Grandparents groups around Europe will be marking the tenth anniversary of the signing of the Paris Climate Agreement.