The CCI blog offers news about our staff and volunteers’ activities, insights into climate policy, science, and impacts, and resources from allies and coalitions developing solutions that work for everyone.
How local policy can support climate-smart trade
Meeting needs at the human scale creates opportunities for serving people across regions and internationally. Trade is the domain of national governments. In the European Union, it is largely treated as a supranational policy space. In the US, there is mainstream disagreement over whether Congress or the Executive branch leads…
Information Integrity is an Economic and Security Imperative
There is a reason all moral and religious traditions treat lying as an offense, even a sin which warrants divine punishment. Providing people with false information has real impacts on their ability to navigate the world. Falsehoods can break trust, ruin relationships, mislead people about sources of danger, and cause…
COP30: A Foundation for Climate Security & Prosperity
We can achieve a world of security, prosperity, dignity, and freedom for all people. That project starts with reducing climate risk and related destabilizing effects, while supporting expanded investment in local communities. The COP30 can establish the foundations for this better future. The COP30 round of United Nations Climate Change…
Transcending Crisis: Invest to improve lives & livelihoods
The 2025 Reinventing Prosperity Report The Principles for Reinventing Prosperity were established in 2020, through a consultative process focused on the adverse conditions facing people in communities across the world, during the COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns. The six principles focus on foundational leverage for creating a world that works for everyone: In…
Civic renewal is the key to solving existential challenges
We live in a time of wicked problems, some at planetary scale, each entangled with the others in a thorny thicket of multidimensional polycrisis. In a Climate Civics brief for the Food Systems Summit +4 Stocktake in July, we outlined seven dimensions of polycrisis facing the community of nations in our time: …
Design systems to transcend emerging & ongoing crises
A preview of the 2025 Reinventing Prosperity Report For the 2025 Reinventing Prosperity report, we are focusing on the principle Design to transcend crisis. The implication is that we need to consider not only how to emerge from shock events for the moment, but work toward making them less likely and transcending the systemic…
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