Category: Blog
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Food systems for human, economic & planetary health
A CCI Blue Note policy brief for the 2nd Food Systems Summit Stocktake (FSS+4) taking place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Four years after the historic United Nations Food Systems Summit, there are many big questions looming about the future of food systems, globally, at regional and national levels, and in terms of what is available…
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Local Advocate Groups set Goals for 2025
At the beginning of the year, we supported local groups of citizen advocates in structuring meetings to define practical goals for the coming year and commit to steps they’ll take to achieve those goals. More than a dozen groups reported details of their meetings, with pracitcal actions aimed at advancing their advocacy goals. Areas of…
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Withdrawal from Paris Agreement will erode US security & prosperity
The following is a statement from Climate Civics Executive Director Joe Robertson. The climate system is a planet-wide fabric of energy exchange. The climate provides stable conditions for life in all regions, allowing ecosystems to adapt to conditions over time, and providing for abundant fresh water and growing conditions for successful agriculture. Stable climate conditions…
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How to make Europe’s ETS2 work
Beginning in 2027, the European Emissions Trading System 2 will go into effect, requiring traded carbon allowances when fuels are sold, effectively putting a carbon price further upstream. The European Commission has reminded member states (except Austria) to implement ETS2 in national law. The aim of ETS2 is to reduce EU greenhouse gas emissions 40…
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Zimbabwe advocates champion Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
The Manica Youth Assembly (MAYA), which partners with Climate Civics International’s chapter in Mutare, Zimbabwe, has launched a powerful initiative advocating for a sustainable and equitable future through the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty (FFNPT). MAYA’s campaign aims to make Mutare the fourth city in Africa to endorse the FFNPT. The FFNPT is founded on three…
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Research finds climate change threatens crop yields
Climate change threatens to undermine food production in Benue state, the food basket of Nigeria. The food we consume depends on a reliable background of natural systems, which bring together nutrients, water, patterns of temperature and precipitation at specific times of year, and numerous ecological factors. All of these factors are necessary to allow for…
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COP28 calls for transition away from fossil fuels, toward climate value economy
The 28th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28) delivered some of the vital ingredients of the needed global breakthrough on climate: In all three of these areas, what will count is real-world implementation. The GGA Framework is not itself sufficient to achieve the comprehensive vulnerability reduction and…
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Our focus areas for the COP28 negotiations
National climate plans must be upgraded to be economy-wide, include all global heating pollution, and accelerate timelines to zero emissions, to align with the Right to a Livable Future. To support this, we are focusing on Action for Climate Empowerment (climate civics), Capital to Communities, and climate-resilient trade, food systems transformation, and non-market multilateral cooperation to pull…
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Remembering two cherished friends who left us too soon
The work of Citizens’ Climate International is all about people. We believe a livable future is a human right, and we are determined to support people of good will coming together to protect others, including future generations, from the preventable impacts of climate destabilization. We wish to remember here two important allies who contributed in…
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CCI is launching a Food, Finance & Democracy Project
The CCI Food, Finance, and Democracy Project is rooted in our core understanding that a livable future is a human right, and in the Capital to Communities approach to participatory climate finance innovation. The Project aims to support citizen volunteers, stakeholder advocates, and public officials, in addressing the following questions: Background Human experience in the…