Category: Statements
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Countering atrocities is a universal moral duty
We build our mission around the principle that a livable future is a human right. That applies to all people. The atrocities committed by Hamas in its shock invasion of Israel are inexcusable in every sense of the word. Torture is a war crime. The deliberate killing of civilians is a war crime. The coordinated…
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Statement on U.S. Supreme Court’s decision banning affirmative action
A refusal to counter injustice is an authorization of that injustice. Such an action is fundamentally contrary to the rule of law, especially in a democracy whose Constitution requires equal protection and unabridged access to redress, while prohibiting the deprivation of rights without due process. The Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling prohibiting affirmative action in college…
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Illegal war against Ukraine must end
One year ago last Friday, Vladimir Putin sent Russian military forces into Ukraine, where they have carried out a nonstop campaign of war crimes. The atrocities committed in Putin’s illegal war are crimes against all human beings everywhere. With all the horrors of this criminal war, it is possible to summarize the overall situation as…
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The attack on Brazil’s democracy is inexcusable
The retiring United States Senator Ben Sasse recently warned that partisan zealotry could further undermine American democracy. The real divide is not really partisan or ideological, he wrote, but between civic pluralists and political zealots. In his haunting essay, Sasse explains the contrast: Civic pluralists understand that ideas move the world more than power does……
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The Biosphere is Life
When we talk about the climate system being destabilized, we are talking about escalating threats to the biosphere. When we talk about unprecedented and accelerating rates of extinction, biodiversity loss, and nature loss, we are describing threats to the biosphere. Today, on World Environment Day, let’s pause and recognize that the environment is the biosphere,…
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Earth Day 2022: We need climate transformation, fast; here’s how
[blank_spacer height=”30px” width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [blank_spacer height=”30px” width=”1/6″ el_position=”first”] [spb_text_block pb_margin_bottom=”no” pb_border_bottom=”no” width=”2/3″] This moment is different. What we do now will determine how billions of people live, and how safe they are, decades from now. We are living through a crucial moment on which human history and the health of planetary systems will hinge.…
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Stockholm+50: The health of Nature shapes our fate
[blank_spacer height=”30px” width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [blank_spacer height=”30px” width=”1/6″ el_position=”first”] [spb_text_block pb_margin_bottom=”no” pb_border_bottom=”no” width=”2/3″] CCI statement on geopolitical, socio-economic, and geophysical context for Stockholm+50 Our fate is linked to the health of nature. The window for climate resilient development is closing. Failure means a world riven by deprivation, displacement, and conflict. As a network of stakeholders…
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CCI joins call to end fossil fuel addiction that funds Putin
[blank_spacer height=”30px” width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [blank_spacer height=”30px” width=”1/6″ el_position=”first”] [spb_text_block pb_margin_bottom=”no” pb_border_bottom=”no” width=”2/3″] Citizens’ Climate International has joined more than 450 organizations in 50 countries in calling for a ban on the import of Russian oil and gas, which provide funding for Vladimir Putin’s war machine. We also join in the call to move toward the…
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Statement on the illegal invasion of Ukraine
The invasion of Ukraine is an unacceptable atrocity The unprovoked military aggression of Russia against Ukraine is a clear violation of numerous articles and provisions of the United Nations Charter, which establishes a universal shared mission to “maintain international peace and security” and “develop friendly relations among nations”, and which commits all members to “settle…
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CCI welcomes COP26 commitments to rapidly cut global heating pollution
[blank_spacer height=”30px” width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [blank_spacer height=”30px” width=”1/6″ el_position=”first”] [spb_text_block pb_margin_bottom=”no” pb_border_bottom=”no” width=”2/3″] Citizens’ Climate International works to empower citizen volunteers to build political will for a livable world. We want to see the everyday economy tell the truth about pollution costs, and for mainstream finance to value the health and resilience of people and…