The Earth Day Citizens’ Forum is an annual event hosted by Citizens’ Climate International, focused on celebrating and advancing civics as a critical tool for raising climate ambition and achieving a livable future. Thursday, April 2109:00 EDT | 13:00 UTC | 14:00 WAT | 15:00 CEST | 18:30 IST | 21:00 PHST | 22:00 JST In this year’s Forum we will: Highlight examples of volunteer … Continue reading EDCF2022 – Earth Day Citizens’ Forum
The Earth Day Citizens’ Forum—co-convened by Citizens’ Climate International (CCI) and the Earth Day Network—brought people from 6 continents together to highlight, celebrate, and build momentum for citizen participation as a catalyst for enhanced climate ambition. Since the world agreed “to prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system” in 1992, citizen participation has been far too marginal a part of the climate policy process. … Continue reading Earth Day Citizens’ Forum celebrates volunteer policy advocates
By Jess Wilber This year has been dominated by the global spread of the coronavirus. Despite the uncertainty the pandemic has brought, CCL volunteers across Africa have continued to take bold steps forward in their climate advocacy: lobbying their governments to join an international carbon pricing group, organizing “shoe strikes,” launching new chapters, and more. Asking their governments to lead on carbon pricing The Carbon … Continue reading Undaunted climate activism during a pandemic – CCL Africa
CARTA ABIERTA AL PRESIDENTE ANDRES MANUEL LOPEZ OBRADOR Tema: Política de Confiabilidad, Seguridad y Continuidad en el Sistema Eléctrico Nacional Señor Presidente: Reciba un cordial saludo departe de Citizens’ Climate Lobby. Somos un movimiento global de más de 180,000 personas que trabajan para empoderar ciudadanos a colaborar con sus gobernantes en soluciones climáticas a nivel nacional e internacional. Trabajamos en México desde hace cuatro años. … Continue reading Carta abierta al Presidente de México de Ciudadanos por un Clima Vivible
During the COP25 United Nations climate negotiations in Madrid, Jorge Neri of the news magazine Cambio 16 interviewed Joe Robertson, Global Strategy Director for Citizens’ Climate. The interview includes discussion of the stakes at COP25, the shift in political awareness of the urgency is the worsening climate crisis, and how Citizens’ Climate works to empower citizen volunteers to engage with government. Neri y Robertson también … Continue reading Cambio16 Interview: Citizenship for Climate Security
By Cathy Orlando, International Outreach Manager, Citizens’ Climate Lobby I have just returned from the 25th Conference of the Parties (COP) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Madrid, Spain (COP 25). The world is still on track for blowing past the safe upper limits for global heating, the rule book for Article 6 of the Paris Agreement was not finalized … Continue reading Heroes & Hope at COP 25 in Madrid
A statement from Citizens’ Climate Education on the decision to move the COP25 UN climate negotiating session to Madrid. The COP25 is a moment of historic importance, when nearly 200 nations will share strategies for rapid upgrading of ambition in national climate action. We were, of course, disappointed to learn of Chile’s decision not to host the COP25 in Santiago as planned, but we understand … Continue reading CCE Statement on Relocation of COP25
Donald Trump’s move to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement undermines American leadership and credibility and materially harms the American people. The Paris Agreement sets the world on a course for a more just and sustainably prosperous future. It also resolves an old complaint—that high-polluting developing economies like China were not bound to action by the 1992 Climate Convention in the same way … Continue reading Trump withdrawal from Paris Agreement is Betrayal
Four extremely worrying trends are converging right now to make the Amazon rainforest the most important single global priority at this moment: An unprecedented number of fires are raging across the entire Amazon basin. The rate of deforestation has quadrupled in the last year. IPCC scientific examination of land use and land degradation shows a rapidly accelerating vicious cycle, where exploitative land use contributes to … Continue reading The Amazon Rainforest is Not for Sale
Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL) has grown to 125,000 members, in 52 countries, on 6 continents. These empowered citizen volunteer policy advocates work together in small local teams to build trust-based working relationships with their representatives in government. They have shown that public participation builds political will and helps decision-makers to align their policy choices with the human interest of the people they represent. Background 2018 … Continue reading ACE Dialogue: Reduce the ‘Otherness’ of Climate; Involve People
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