Category: Blog
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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…
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Vote for Climate campaign reaches millions across Nigeria
VOTE FOR CLIMATE: THE CALL FOR NIGERIANS TO ELECT LEADERS WITH CLIMATE ACTION PLANS In the build up to Nigeria’s 2023 general elections, four political parties were at the fore front of the electioneering campaigns. A closer look at the…
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Citizens’ Climate volunteers join United Nations Water Conference
From March 22nd-24th, the UN Water Conference 2023 was held at the UN Headquarters in New York City. This historical meeting hasn’t been held since 1977, and now it comes at a time of urgency recognizing the water crisis that…
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Connect people to process to drive systems change
We are living through a decisive decade—for the future of human societies, and for the life of our species, and of millions of other species. This constellation of existential risks is what puts at an inflection point. We might shift…
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Climate transformation is a human endeavor (2022 Year in Review)
2022 was a year of tectonic shifts. In some ways, the calendar of this year qualifies as what UN Secretary-General Guterres called “an atlas of human suffering”—with climate, conflict, COVID, and major food system disruptions subjecting vulnerable populations to unthinkable…
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United Nations creates Global Crisis Response Group on Food, Energy, and Finance
In a briefing to the press on Monday, which he opened with the words “Ukraine is on fire”, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on Russia to cease all attacks on the people of Ukraine and highlighted the increasing levels…
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COP26 Delegation Report: To activate Glasgow outcomes, treat stakeholders as leaders
The 26th Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP26) brought nearly 200 nations and more than of ten thousand observers to Glasgow. The task was to finalize rules for national and global climate action…
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Financial integration and inclusion needed to get best results from Glasgow outcomes
During the opening days of the COP26 United Nations Climate Change negotiations, the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) announced it had assembled 450 financial institutions controlling $130 trillion in wealth, committing to align their holdings with a global…