COP21 is right around the corner, so if you’re interested in getting the scoop straight from the professionals, CSOs, activists, policy-makers, officials and politicians making it happen (in France and beyond), we’ve put together a handy and diverse Twitter list with the 21 movers & shakers you should keep track of in the coming weeks.
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@COP21_News
For announcements, daily round-ups
and updates during conference
proceedings, hear it straight from this
year’s organizing administration by
tuning in to the official twitter
account of the COP21.
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@Coy11France
One week prior to COP21, the 11th
edition of this initiative will join over
5,000 youth from around the world in
order to continue defining the role of
youth in addressing climate change
and protecting the planet they will
inherit.
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@ParisProtocol
For the latest environmental scoop
leading to COP21 and the Paris
Protocol, this account tweets
consistently about the news, events
and updates shaping the global
climate change movement.
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@POC21cc
This Open Source initiative took place
just last month and consisted of an
innovation camp designed to
prototype the fossil free, zero waste
society. 100+ designers, engineers,
scientists and geeks joined forces for
five weeks in a french castle with the
goal of making open-source,
sustainable products the new normal,
ahead of and beyond COP21.
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@Climat21
Among other actors, Coalition Climat
21 joins together over 130 civil
society organizations, trade unions
and NGOs working for human rights
and the environment. The coalition
organizes numerous events, activities
and demonstrations in and around
Paris.
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@SolutionsCOP21
From 4 to 10 December, this free
exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris
will showcase the power of
innovative solutions, inventions and
ideas to help tackle climate change.
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@alternatiba75
Alternatiba Paris is a citizen
movement advocating for climate
justice through results-based
solutions to tackle climate change.
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@AliceAudouin
Consultant, author and founder of
Art of Change 21, an innovative NGO
linking 21 social entrepreneurs,
artists and youth representatives at
the international level.
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@Luc_Jacquet
As a film director specializing in
nature and man’s place in it, his latest
film, ‘La Glace et le Ciel’ (Ice and the
Sky) focuses on the work of Claude
Lorius, one of the first scientists to
raise evidence-based concerns on
climate change.
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@LaurenceTubiana
French Ambassador of international
climate change negotiations for
COP21, she is also the founder of
IDDRI, the Paris based Institute of
Sustainable Development and
International Relations.
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@CoHedegaard
Former EU Commissioner for Climate
Action, she tweets regularly on
climate change, EU and international
climate policy, and current affairs.
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@CFigueres
Climate analyst, lecturer and
Executive Secretary of the UN
Framework Convention on Climate
Climate Change (UNFCCC).
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@NaomiAKlein
Best known for her bestselling book
‘No Logo’, author, social activist and
filmmaker Naomi Klein’s latest film,
entitled ‘This Changes Everything’,
builds on her previous work and
shines the spotlight on the urgency of
confronting the climate crisis.
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@WWF_Climat
Based on the organization’s extensive
expertise in biodiversity conservation
and in helping reduce humanity’s
footprint on the environment, ‘WWF
Climat’ (a French branch of WWF),
tweets regularly about climate
change negotiations, key events and
its own communication initiatives.
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@PlacetoBcop21
If you plan on being in Paris for
COP21, PlaceToBCOP21 is ‘the’
meeting point for bloggers, media,
artists, NGOs and all those seeking to
exchange ideas and create their
narrtive of COP21.
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@RoyalSegolene
Spearheading the French
Government’s preparations ahead of
COP21, Ségolène Royal is the Minister
of Ecology, Sustainable Development
and Energy.
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@UNFCCC
The official account of the UNFCCC
(United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change)
shares the latest news on the UN
climate change negotiations and
climate action at all levels.
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@AlGore
Former US Vice President, winner of
the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize together
with the IPCC, and founder and
Chairman of the Climate Reality
Project @ClimateReality
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@350
Founded by Author, Educator and
Environmentalist Bill McKibben,
350.org is a platform aiming to ignite
a global climate movement,
coordinating online campaigns,
grassroots organizations, and mass
public actions through a global
network active in over 188 countries.
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@Greenpeacefr
Greenpeace France, as part of one of
the most recognizable and active
environmental NGOs at the global
level, currently prioritizes climate
change and the climate/energy nexus
as one of its main campaign axes,
together with agriculture, oceans,
toxic materials and nuclear energy.
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@IPCC_CH
This list wouldn’t be complete
without including the Twitter account
of world’s most authoritative climate
science body, currently chaired by
Korean climate change economist
Hoesung Lee.
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