This year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference in December is a crucial one, with countries from around the world coming together to try and establish a global climate change agreement that will take off where the Kyoto Protocol leaves off in 2012. If it goes well, not only will a global climate change agreement be reached, but the goals will be ambitious and put a much heavier emphasis on change than in the past. If things go poorly, no climate change agreement may be reached at all.

As one individual who’s (most likely) not a member of the government who will be attending the COP15 Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, you might feel like there’s nothing you can do to show the world how important the environment is to you, but although you may not be able to attend in person, there are some simple things you can do online today that will put your support behind this important action.

You can visit the Hopenhagen site for a little encouragement and a chance to express some positive thoughts on climate change. The point is simple; just add your own opinion of what gives you hope to the constantly rotating ticker, where you’ll see what people are deriving their hope about climate change from (statements range from literal things like “2nd hand books give me hope” to larger concepts like “humanity gives me hope”). Hopenhagen is created by the United Nations, but there’s no word on whether responses will be used in COP15 in any way. Still, it’s a nice change from some of the grim and disheartening statistics and a good way to give yourself a burst of positivity and increased faith that we’ll be able to change our ways when it comes to the climate. You can also follow the site on Twitter.

Another option is to visit the COP15 site and check out the Climate Thoughts “globe” where you can share a thought on climate change or add your support to other thoughts (which will then glow as brighter dots on the “globe”). Or you can head over to www.roadtocopenhagen.org, where a forum, wiki and several annual conferences make it possible for you to work on policy recommendations that will ultimately be submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Finally, if you participated in Earth Hour 2009 last March, you should know that you’ve already taken a step to show the world’s governments that you care about the planet. This year’s Earth Hour was set as a global “vote” with flipped switches indicating a vote for the earth and the results of Earth Hour being presented in Copenhagen later this year.

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