Category: Policy Notebook
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10 years after Paris, the climate imperative is clear
An ethical and practical exploration of climate disruption and the future of human development On November 25, 2025, Climate Civics Executive Director Joseph Robertson gave a guest lecture and led a condensed future-visioning exercise for the St. John’s University course Economics of Sustainable Development. The focus was a review of current and emerging trends in…
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Bold climate cooperation can emerge from 2nd week of Bonn talks
Bold climate cooperation can emerge from the second week of the SB62 round of negotiations in Bonn… if countries choose to favor action, investment, and transformation, over further debate and delay. Today, we emerge from the midway point into week 2 of the current round of United Nations Climate Change negotiations. However esoteric or frustrating…
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Crunch time for a livable climate future
It’s crunch time for our climate future. We are living through a worsening storm of hard impacts, and all of the ways forward are rocky. We are more than 30 years on from the historic global agreement to prevent dangerous human-caused climate change, and global emissions continue to rise. We know that global heating of…
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Article 6.8 of the Paris Agreement can be an engine for food security
Global food supplies are under threat. Worsening climate impacts in food-producing regions, overconsumption, and badly managed food waste and loss, have combined to reduce global grain stocks, and make food less affordable. Since the COVID pandemic began in early 2020, supply chain disruptions have made food even more scarce, while hundreds of millions of people…
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People-centered carbon pricing is a shortcut to a better future
We are living through the early stages of climate emergency. Emissions are still rising, global heating is getting worse, and droughts, fires, storms, and floods, are intensifying. Massive wildfires are burning in Siberia, and it is estimated that worldwide, wildfires in July and August released more heat-trapping gases than all of India does in one…