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

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

Dear Environmental Assessment Secretariat, Trade Agreements and NAFTA Secretariat (TCT) at Global Affairs Canada Re: CUSMA Initial Environmental Assessment Investment, finance, trade, and commerce in the Main Street economy are not zero sum games. They are not finite proverbial pies where any gain is necessarily a loss for someone else. The highest value aim in trade and commerce is to generate new wealth by creating … Continue reading Citizens’ Climate Lobby Guidance to CUSMA Environmental Assessment