Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
WILPF is the longest-standing women’s peace NGO that focuses on addressing root causes of violence through a feminist lens and seeks to strive towards lasting global sustainable peace with equality and justice in the foreground. WILDF promotes sustainable development through climate activism, which focuses on the impact of capitalism on the environment. In addition, the organization utilizes feminist political and economic theories to propose ways to shift to a different political economy with investment in environmental protection and social and economic rights.
***Categories: Communities, Education, Governance
Swiss Climate Alliance
The Swiss Climate Alliance is a NGO that strives for an ambitious, fair and sustainable climate policy for Switzerland. These climate policies are based on scientific results, and are committed to at least implementing the objectives of international climate agreements. The organization has more than 80 Switzerland organizations as members and puts their attention on topics such as biodiversity, divestment, fossil fuel emissions, poverty, the Arctic, climate justice and climate funding.
***Categories: Environmental Policies, Biodiversity, Conservation, Renewable Energies
Swiss Youth for Climate (SYFC)
The Swiss Youth for Climate is a NGO that has built an extensive national and international network despite being established since only 2015. With their regional groups residing in six cities in Switzerland, they conduct national political projects, and participate in international climate negotiations. Some of their goals include advocating for climate policies at the national and international level as well as raising awareness about the climate crisis.
***Categories: Youth, Organizations, Environmental Policies, Climate Change
Noé21
Noé21 is a NGO that was established to initially explore and promote environmental fiscal reform. Noé21 has since then expanded to more solutions such as encouraging behavior change, energy efficiency and local renewable energy sourcing. They also promote solutions to climate change, such as the energy transition. They evaluate solutions and through research, seminars, animations in school and public events, they advocate these solutions to decision makers.
***Categories: Individuals, Renewable Energies, Climate Change, Education
Buy Food With Plastic
Buy Food With Plastics (BFWP) was founded in 2018 as a response to the environmental and political issues in Nicaragua with plastics polluting beaches and an escalating political crisis. BFWP works to follow the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Although their home-base is in Switzerland they work in the target countries of Nicaragua, India, and Ghana with individualized projects for each. The organization aims to help combat issues of environmental degradation due to plastic and lack of political autonomy by distributing meals, collecting plastics, education, and reusing collected plastics for new products.
***Categories: Recycling, Local Communities, Education
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