As a contribution to Mountain Glaciers and Snow Day at the COP25 Cryosphere Pavilion, Citizens’ Climate is joining ICCI to draw connections between climate-regulating ice landscapes and everyday experience. Although glaciers are found in the most remote parts of our planet, the consequences of their melt are affecting us all, no matter where we live. Learn about connections between human activities and their (anthropogenic) affect … Continue reading The Value of Ice
Stakeholder Engagement, Local Economies & Science-based Finance to Fuel NDC Upgrading  Date: Monday, December 2, 2019 Time: 14:30 – 15:30 Venue: COP25 Blue Zone, Concepción Hall — European Union Pavilion, Brussels Room URL: Engage4Climate.org/eu-pavilion Speakers Joe Robertson—Citizens’ Climate Education Nick Beglinger—Cleantech 21 Foundation Isatis Cintrón—Citizens’ Climate Lobby Latin America Ross Astoria—University of Wisconsin Description The COP25 Presidency calls on all nations, rightly, to integrate the … Continue reading EU Pavilion Event: Participation, Price Signals & Finance to Fuel NDC Upgrading
COP25 Strategy Brief from Citizens’ Climate Education, the Engage4Climate Network and Resilience Intel The time between the COP25 (opening today in Madrid) and the COP26 (next November in Glasgow) constitutes an unprecedented moment for creative collaboration in the improvement of human experience and outcomes. During that time, 195 nations must upgrade their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to the global climate crisis response. The work of … Continue reading COP25 Mandate: The Geopolitics of Mutual Empowerment
Writing for Bloomberg News, Naureen Malik has cited Resilience Intel’s climate-smart finance aggregation work, noting: The money being committed to address climate change has jumped 54% this year in response to efforts to check global warming, according to a study. The Resilience Intel working paper underlying these numbers outlines 5 verticals where overall commitments are being tracked: Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs): $2.66 Trillion (48.5% of … Continue reading Funding Commitments for Climate Action Jump 54% in One Year
Global heating is happening faster and with deeper compounding impacts than we had expected. Sir David King, former chief science advisor for the government of the United Kingdom, is calling for an upgraded long-term goal of net-zero by 2040. Simple arithmetic shows there is not enough money in circulation to cover the extreme costs of carbon fuel subsidies and the extreme and rising costs of … Continue reading Net-Zero by 2040 is Common Sense
Our study of the natural world is providing ever more detailed data about human impact on natural systems and the effect of these impacts on human health and wellbeing and the stability of institutions. Without major improvements across a broad spectrum of sustainability metrics, we will face serious degradation of both ecosystems and human security by 2050. Industries accustomed to reducing their own capital costs … Continue reading Exploitation is Not Enterprise
When we scan the solar system for signs of life, we look for water. Earth life requires water. The whereabouts and availability of water on Earth are determined by geology, life, and activity in the climate system, which is made up of thermal energy flows moving between the atmosphere and the ocean. Biodiversity is driven by the presence of water and life, under stable climate … Continue reading WEAVE GKG: Visualizing Earth-Systems Value
If global heating exceeds an average of 1.5ºC across the world, we will collectively face so much risk and damage, the costs will spill over into every area of human experience. The climate system does not respect political borders or bank account balances. An Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund once framed the crisis in these simple, haunting terms: When a small island nation … Continue reading Science is Not Negotiable
There is no such thing as a free lunch. That is important to remember in politics at all levels. Smart politicians know they cannot afford to be on the wrong side of major forces that will affect their constituents, so it is always astonishing to see climate policy treated as “highly partisan” or “divisive”. The simplest story about climate science and climate solutions is this: … Continue reading UN Climate Talks are Shortcut to Security & Prosperity
In January 2014, Citizens’ Climate Lobby was comprised of numerous groups in the US and Canada and one each in Sweden and Bangladesh. Germany and Australia started up next, and expanded rapidly. Just 5 years later, the CCL family includes 125,000 citizen volunteers in 52 countries. At the 10th CCL Annual Conference, on Sunday, June 9, 2019, volunteer leaders and coordinators from across that global … Continue reading CCL2019: International Coordinators Empower Each Other
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