Tag: our-events
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Emerging Insights for COP29: Diplomacy workshops highlight need to get beyond zero-sum thinking
We are midway through the COP29 cycle of Earth Diplomacy Leadership workshops, and the presentations and discussions so far have surfaced a lot of important insights around what is on the table and what is at stake in Baku. There…
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COP29 Earth Diplomacy Leadership workshops start October 21
The Earth Diplomacy Leadership Initiative is a collaboration between CItizens’ Climate International and The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Its core aim is to prepare people for participation in the UN Climate Change negotiation process, and to…
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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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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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Critical action insights for the Bonn negotiations
The SB60 negotiations can create new momentum for the climate value economy. Earth Diplomacy Leadership workshops provide critical insights for cooperative acceleration. Ahead of the SB60 round of UN Climate Change negotiations in Bonn, the Earth Diplomacy Leadership workshops highlighted…
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Blueprint for data systems integration—tracking high-value co-benefits
The Integrated Data Systems Initiative is a five-year innovation sprint, organized by the Good Food Finance Network (GFFN) and recognized by the 2023 Agriculture Innovation Mission (AIM) for Climate Summit. The GFFN ‘Blueprint for Good Food Finance Data Systems Integration’…
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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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Ambition in New York
193 nations and hundreds of side meetings advance paradigm shift to sustainable policy and practice New York Climate Week and the United Nations General Assembly were, as usual, a nonstop flood of meetings, negotiations, advocacy, and announcements. Dr. Katharine Hayhoe,…
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The Food, Finance & Democracy Project
The Food, Finance, and Democracy Project is rooted in our core understanding that a livable future is a human right, and in the Capital to Communities approach to participatory climate finance innovation. The Project aims to support citizen volunteers, stakeholder…
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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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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…