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Photo by Kena Betancur / EPA. Used with permission by Oxfam International . Gonaivez, Haiti.

In less than 100 days, over 180 nations will be meeting in Copenhagen to discuss international negotiations around the global community's carbon emissions. This is not an easy task in any means for this is the 15th time these nations have met and the past 14 times, have failed to come up with a common solution. Many initiatives have started up around this important conference to spread the word of the importance of COP15 conference negotiations. Static Photography has been working with the global initiative TckTckTck with their project called Time To Click to spread the word of climate change through the use of photos taken around the world.

Photo by Stringer / EPA . Used with permission by Oxfam International . Hadhramout, Yemen.

TckTckTck is a global initiative that is a collective campaign from many different organizations. Using a new model called the open campaign model, TckTckTck allows its partnership organizations to use its branding and resources to create their own campaigns around the importance around climate change and the upcoming climate conference COP15. The name TckTckTck was chosen to resemble a clock ticking away the seconds to show the necessity of global support in this serious issue. TckTckTck has partnered up with Greenpeace , WWF , OxFam , Christian Aid , Amnesty International , and Union of Concerned Scientists , just to name a few.

Photo by Sataporn Thongma / EPA. Oxfam International . Nakhon Ratchasima province of Thailand.

Climate change is not something that is in the distant future for it is currently affecting communities daily in devastating detail. People are having their crops destroyed, their homes swept away in floods and more. Sometimes just knowing the numbers does not fully represent the actual impact of the climate change in the minds of people who have yet to feel the effects. Pictures tend to capture the moments of frustration, sadness and destruction that are actually happening to people around the world. Many citizen journalists are capturing these moments for documentation or for the purpose of the destruction of their own communities. Climate change is the number one threat against the world as a global community and the repercussions are manifested in many terrifying ways.

Photo by Taw Naw Htoo. UNHCR - the UN Refugee Agency . Dadaab, Kenya.

Time to Click is a photo of the day direct response to the fact that COP15 is less than a hundred days away. Each day a picture will be posted on the Time to Click blog that depicts the effect that climate change is having on the world in a very real way. Whether it is a flood destroying a whole community, a deserted riverbed or an uncontrollable wildfire, a photograph depicting the effects of climate change can and will get people thinking about the importance of the negations at COP15 in December. The Time to Click campaign was launched as a project for the last 100 days before the COP15 conference and was modeled after the KK+ Photo of the Day blog that features a daily photo of Kris Krug's 23,000 photo catalog on Flickr .

Photo by Brendan Bannon. UNHCR - the UN Refugee Agency . Dadaab, Kenya.

Time to Click is a project funded by Oxfam but is entirely created by content of photographers from around the world. Their Photo of the Day blog is powered by photographs submitted to their Time to Click flickr photo group . Anyone can submit photos that capture the essence of climate change effects either on a global scale, a community level scale or a personal scale. The Time to Click campaign really stands behind the fact that climate change ultimately affects people and by addressing the issue of climate change from a personable level, the need for a decisive outcome at COP15 is that much more necessary.

Photo by Gilvan Barreto. Oxfam International . Ancash, Peru.

We at Static Photography know the power that a photograph can have on a story and a cause. All parts of our community are helping this cause; local Vancourites Darren Barefoot from Capulet and Jason Mogus from Communicopia are part of the organizing team of TckTckTck. Time to Click is the perfect opportunity to be part of a global campaign that is speaking from the heart of the people that are directly affected.

Here is more information:

Time to Click Flickr Photostream

Time to Click Flickr Photo Group