Category: Civic Engagement
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A Toolkit for Local Stakeholder Engagement Meetings
Earth Civics is a cooperative endeavor, aimed at empowering people, communities, and institutions, to find the path to sustainable human development, in harmony with Nature. We want people everywhere, in all circumstances, with all levels of influence, to be able…
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Leading locally just got much more important
The risks and costs imposed by climate-disrupting pollution are real, pervasive, and getting worse. This is an observable reality, not a forecast. Local communities, regional economies, and international supply chains, are all facing rising costs and increased risk of operational…
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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…
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Lobbying success at the state level in Nigeria
In addition to lobbying governments on the national level, CCI volunteers, led by Africa Coordinator Dr. Michael Terungwa David (shown above), are also lobbying to enact climate policies on a state level, and they’re making great progress. In late August,…
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Climate Clock: Later is too late
Citizens’ Climate International groups joined Climate Clock’s Global Day of Action on July 22 with events in French — Plus tard, c’est trop tard! — and English At noon on July 22, the human race officially marked less than five…
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Mother-daughter team are Canada’s dynamic duo on climate activism
By Steve Valk At age seven, Sophia Mathur attended her first lobby meeting on climate change. “I wanted to tag along with my mom and see what her job was with lobbying and all that.” During meetings, she would draw…
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Improving NDCs with stakeholder input & citizen leadership
Announcing the CCI NDC Collaborative We cannot afford, even in the next few months and years, to keep expanding the reach of destructive and unsustainable practices. Too much is at stake, as heat records are broken, water and food supplies…
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Citizens’ Climate International Nigeria Makes History
Citizens’ Climate International Nigeria makes History by Joseph Ibrahim, National Volunteer Manager at Citizens’ Climate International in Nigeria Earlier this week, CCI Nigeria members, composed of volunteers from CCI Abuja group, CCI Kaduna group and CCI Uniabj converged at the…