Climate Action: A Campaign Manual for Greenhouse Solutions

by Mark Diesendorf

Responding to the global flowering of commitment to environmental issues, this handbook shows activists and citizens how to pressure governments and businesses to create a framework for large and rapid reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. With examples of climate-action movements in the United States, the UK, and Australia, this manual draws inspiration from these successes. In presenting these positive case studies of grassroots social movements that brought about change, the guide refutes the myths disseminated by vested interests and the greenhouse mafia who are trying to undermine effective action.

256 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2009

About the author

Mark Diesendorf is a senior lecturer in the Institute of Environmental Studies at the University of New South Wales. He has worked as a consultant for many organisations, including AusAID, the Australian Conservation Foundation, Greenpeace Australia Pacifi c, StateRail (NSW), the Sustainable Energy Development Authority of New South Wales, the Sustainable Energy Authority of Victoria and WWF Australia.