The Climate Parliament was set up in 2009.  Prior to that, our parent organization, the e-Parliament, conducted a poll in which more than 700 legislators from over 70 countries participated, to determine global priorities on energy issues. The top three choices were renewable energy, energy efficiency and energy access for the poor.

We have conducted more than 20 international parliamentary committee hearings to examine  policy options for promoting these priorities. Each hearing brings together around 20 members of Parliament and Congress to spend two days questioning leading experts from around the world.

How we work

To build regional action networks and assist the legislators in taking action, the Climate Parliament:

• Develops Parliamentary Toolkits giving legislators all the information they need to advance a policy idea within their own political process.
• Organises international Parliamentary committee hearings, and field trips for legislators to see new policies and technologies in action.
• Reaches out through the Internet to national and state legislators worldwide.  Key members of our network send the Parliamentary Toolkits to their colleagues by e-mail, using our unique database which already contains the e-mail addresses of more than 20,000 national legislators.  Actions taken are reported through our electronic newsletters.
• Builds national and regional committees of knowledgeable and committed Members of Parliament and Congress to plan strategy in their own parts of the world, and to take the lead in their own Parliaments.