International aid agency Oxfam launched ClimateVoice this week, bringing bloggers from around the world to New York for today's high level climate summit at the United Nations, Clinton Global Iniative, Climate Week NYC events.

 Visit www.tcktcktck.org/climatevoice to see the coverage

The Climate Voice project,     - which part of the VoiceProject ,was run in partnership with the UN Foundation, has attracted bloggers from highly trafficked environmental blogs like Treehugger.com and Grist.org to rising voices like Stephane Ramananiviro from Madagascar and New Yorker and Internet darling Julia Allison. They will be accredited to the climate summit as journalists, and will have the same access to presidents, prime ministers and business leaders as the rest of the press corps.

"As 100 heads of state head to the UN, bloggers will be there," said Karina Brisby, Oxfam's head of digital media. "Oxfam believes that empowering people to engage and take action is a vital part of making change happen. Blogging and social media tools are right at the heart of getting people involved in holding their leaders to account."

Bloggers are participating in exclusive briefings with policy makers and attending New York Climate Week events, such as the carbon-neutral premiere of Age of Stupid. Model and photographer Helena Christensen, who recently returned from a trip to Peru with Oxfam to document the impacts of cliamte change on poor communities, also met with the bloggers. From New York, the bloggers will move to Pittsburgh for the G20 summit.

"I was thrilled to co-host Oxfam's Human Countdown   video," said new media personality Julia Allison. "Climate change is the greatest threat the world has ever faced and we need new voices to engage and apply pressure so our leaders wake up before the clock runs out our planet!"

The Voice project was founded by Oxfam to help new media voices gain access to international meetings and decision makers and to bring attention to climate change in the United States and beyond. The project will act as a hub for online reporting, from on-the-ground dispatches to digital media centers, from live video and twitter streams to aggregated blog feeds. The first VoiceProject event was the G20Voice at the London summit where 50 bloggers around the world gained access.

The VoiceProject will now move onto the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh where it is working with local Pittsburgh bloggers to cover the summit and the associated events.

Support for the project came from   Livesteam.com Tumblr.com and Blip.tv who are providing the tools to spread the coverage of the Voice project bloggers even further.