ABSTRACT
The global climate protection movement has laid the groundwork for countering the underlying obstacles to climate protection. It has constructed a flexible network form of organization that can facilitate rapid coordination and mass mobilization on a global scale and has drawn tens of millions of people into grassroots self-organization. It has established its independence of any nation-state and of any corporate interest. The movement has established a common interpretive frame and a common objective: the reduction of atmospheric carbon to a climate-safe level, currently estimated at 350 ppm or less. It has related that frame to issues of social justice and has projected its frame and objective to hundreds of millions of people. It has moved beyond the limits of lobbying to mass civil disobedience. The global climate movement has become one of the power actors of the world order, able to challenge states, corporations, and other central institutions.
