About the GCCA
TckTckTck is a project of the the Global Campaign for Climate Action (GCCA), a bold, new initiative involving a growing number of national and global 
organizations in support of a single goal: to mobilize civil society and to galvanize public opinion in support of transformational change and rapid action to save the planet from dangerous levels of climate change.
We envision a future where the earth’s climate has stabilized at levels safe for the thriving of humanity and protection of ecosystems, and where a transformed, low-carbon economy has averted the threat of catastrophic climate change and helped end the injustices of global poverty and inequality. A historic shift has begun in the structure of the global economy and the earth’s climate. Our actions now will determine its direction.
Who is the GCCA?
GCCA emerged from conversations involving internationally respected campaigners and advocates from environmental and development groups. It has since grown to include diverse organizations such as the Union of Concerned Scientists, Pew Environment Group, Oxfam International, Greenpeace International, Christian Aid, World Council of Churches, World Wildlife Fund, 350, Avaaz, E3G, Global Humanitarian Forum, Global Call to Action against Poverty, and leading NGOs in over thirty nations.
The GCCA is supported by a small international staff with a Secretariat based in Montreal (Canada).
Why GCCA?
The climate crisis is reaching its peak. Recent scientific studies indicate that the pace of climate change is exceeding the worst case scenarios produced by the IPCC and that we have only a short time to prevent catastrophic impacts from global warming.
At the February, 2009 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, new studies sparked increased concern.
Christopher Field, founding director of the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology at Stanford University and a member of the IPCC said that “We are basically looking now at a future climate that’s beyond anything we’ve considered seriously in climate model simulations.”
Climate change is affecting every region of the world with the poorest nations being hit first and hardest. Places like Bangladesh, Sudan, and Tuvalu are being worst hit. Entire Pacific atolls are being forced into discussions about abandoning their homelands while having contributed an infinitesimal amount to global warming emissions. Against this backdrop, officials representing 192 countries will meet throughout 2009 in preparation for climate treaty negotiations in Copenhagen at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 15) scheduled for December.
This treaty must establish new mechanisms and binding targets for the reduction of global warming emissions in order to minimize the risks for the most vulnerable amongst us. Despite the current economic recession we have a unique opportunity to build the foundations for a prosperous low carbon future.