Category: Multilateral Cooperation
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Eliminate climate costs in trade
National governments have a duty to eliminate climate costs, including in trade relationships and related business activities, financial arrangements, and everyday outcomes. This is not just an advocate’s view or a wish; this is the law. The International Court of…
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SB64: Risk & Opportunity
The SB64 round of UN Climate Change negotiations will provide important opportunities for nations to reduce risks from destructive practices and maximize opportunity related to sustainable, climate-resilient development. While the process is highly technical and bureaucratic, nearly all areas of…
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Santa Marta Conference signals start of fossil free future
The first Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels was held April 24-29 in Santa Marta, Colombia. 57 nations have signed up to the project of working together to transition away from fossil fuels, in line with the Paris Agreement…
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SM26: Cooperate to prevent chaos & expand opportunity
Reduced development finance and humanitarian aid are colliding with armed conflict and the planetary health crisis to degrade prospects for peace and prosperity.
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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…
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80th UN General Assembly can jump start polycrisis response
The 80th annual meetings of the United Nations General Assembly come at a risk-filled turning point in global affairs. The United States and other leading member states are reducing their commitments to official development assistance and refocusing on military expenditures…
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We can free ourselves from chaos
Briefing note for the 2025 Spring Meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund From Climate Civics and the Climate Value Exchange What are we doing? 2025 has been so far a time of deep turmoil, destabilizing long-standing alliances, financial markets, trade…
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Urgent imperatives & emerging opportunities (Climate Value status report)
Climate Value Exchange briefing note, reporting from December 2024 monthly meeting During the December 2024 monthly planning meeting for the Climate Value Exchange, we shared views on the COP29, its outcomes, and their implications for our collective future. We also…
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Mainstreaming Climate Action to Drive Development
An interactive look at Article 6.8 of the Paris Agreement and its potential to bring about a transition to climate-smart trade, finance, and everyday economics, in all regions. Major structural anchors of Earth’s stable climate system—like Arctic ice—are disappearing; costs…
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COP29 should materially accelerate climate action to improve lives & livelihoods
CCI briefing note on COP29 focus areas A safe, resilient, and livable climate future is possible. That should be the subtext of every headline about climate disruption and our response. We can stop making climate change worse, and the solutions…
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Lifting up youth leaders at the Summit of the Future
Report by Cedric Dzelu – CCI Volunteer from Ghana and Youth Focal Person on Climate Change for the Africa Youth Commission From September 20th to 22nd, 2024, I had the honor of attending the United Nations’ Summit of the Future in New York, where…
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Make trade work for everyone
Climate value must be built into all decisions on trade By Steve Valk As the world strives to meet the challenge of reducing greenhouse gas emissions enough to keep the increase in temperature from exceeding the 1.5°C threshold, international trade…