Category: Multilateral Cooperation
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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…
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IPE24: A first step to put climate value at the heart of decision making
By Steve Valk Chinwe Obuaku-Igwe grew up a “rural girl” in Nigeria. The third of six girls in her family, she found comfort in the forest and loved connecting with nature. But her life suffered a dramatic setback when her…
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Building Climate Value Together is a Global Imperative
Summary statement from the 2024 Interparliamentary Exchange on Climate Value, hosted by Citizens’ Climate International June 9-12, 2024, in Washington, DC The first Interparliamentary Exchange on Climate Value took place during the Bonn climate negotiations, at a time when geopolitical…
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Define climate leadership by example—7 actions for the G7
When the G7 meet, each year, there is hunger to see exemplary acts of leadership, in the hopes that conditions can be improved around the world, as a result. What we need now is leadership by example in all of…
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SB60: Cooperate to unlock the climate value economy
The SB60 round of UNFCCC negotiations could open a door to the great promise of climate-resilient development, but the Bonn Conference also comes at a time when the world community risks permanently falling behind the climate crisis curve. The ripple…
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Cooperative innovation in energy, food, finance & trade can halt climate breakdown
Ahead of the Spring Meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, CCI is calling for a significant increase in multilateral climate cooperation, in line with Article 6.8 of the Paris Agreement. 32 years have passed since the community…
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New law for climate-smart transformation – COP28 debrief
Earth Diplomacy Leadership Initiative COP28 Outcomes: Making new law for climate-smart transformation The Earth Diplomacy Leadership Initiative is co-coordinated by CCI and The Fletcher School at Tufts University. Today, we held the Earth Diplomacy Leadership COP28 Debrief session. The workshop…
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Implicit COP28 priorities: Rights, applied science & institutional innovation
Review of preliminary insights emerging from pre-COP28 Earth Diplomacy Leadership workshops The Pre-COP28 Earth Diplomacy Leadership sessions have raised important insights about the global negotiating process, about what is at stake, what we know about emerging trends, and practical levers for…
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AM2023: Upgrading International Finance, Development & Trade
This week, the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund will hold their Annual Meetings in Marrakech, Morocco. The meetings could be historic—both for consolidating long-term transformation of international financial arrangements and for the immediate impact they may have on…
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Evolving World Bank mission & practice to support climate-safe integral human development
Briefing note representing stakeholders’ views and concerns for ongoing reform of multilateral development finance SUBMITTED TO THE WORLD BANK ON JULY 25, 2023 Citizens’ Climate International works to support citizen stakeholders in their efforts to engage decision-makers to support transformational climate…