Category: Blog
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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),…
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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…
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Citizen advocates ask World Bank to invest in people & nature
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in its 6h Assessment Report (AR6), warns that the window for “successful climate resilient development” is rapidly closing. Food systems are increasingly stressed and at risk, and new evidence shows multiple breadbasket failure is…
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The heat is on. Let’s deal with the cause: Fossil fuels
With heat extremes removing all doubt about climate change, let’s deal with the cause: Fossil fuels By Steve Valk With record-shattering heat making headlines around the world, this is a good time to connect some dots to see what’s behind…
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Members of Parliament from Ghana join Citizens’ Climate conference
CCI welcomed the first ever visiting parliamentary delegation from another country to the 2023 Citizens’ Climate Lobby conference, which took place June 10-13 in Washington, DC. The Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana designated the Honorable Yves Hanson-Nortey and the…
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After SB58: Only high ambition makes sense now
Key Messages Assessing Progress Our opening assessment of the SB58 negotiations started with the following observations: Vulnerability is increasing in all regions, along with major obstacles to progress, like deep income inequality, sovereign debt distress, and rising costs of emergency…
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The cooperative financing revolution is starting
Climate, health, nature, food, and inequality are converging in a global polycrisis; the Paris Summit aims to start a cooperative financing revolution, to avoid ecological collapse and secure a livable future. Unsustainable practices eventually hit a wall, by undermining the…