Climate Civics

10 years after Paris, the climate imperative is clear An ethical and practical exploration of climate disruption and the future of human development On November 25, 2025, Climate Civics Executive Director Joseph Robertson gave a guest lecture and led …

10 Years After the #ParisAgreement, the climate imperative is clear. Costs are already becoming prohibitive; future disruption, mass migration, conflict & chaos will be worse than any institution is prepared for. Our best future is centered on climate resilience. climatecivics.org/2025/12/08/1...

10 years after Paris, the climate imperative is clear An ethical and practical exploration of climate disruption and the future of human development On November 25, 2025, Climate Civics Executive Director Joseph Robertson gave a guest lecture and led …

To ensure the integrity of all ecosystems in forests, the ocean, mountains, and the cryosphere, while protecting biodiversity, requires climate action ambition & implementation beyond what any nation is currently envisioning. climatecivics.org/2025/12/08/1...

Food systems for human, economic & planetary health A CCI Blue Note policy brief for the 2nd Food Systems Summit Stocktake (FSS+4) taking place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Four years after the historic United Nations Food Systems Summit, there are many…

Today, experts, advocates & diplomats are gathered in Addis Ababa for the stocktake on #FoodSystems four years after the #FoodSystemsSummit. Our policy brief maps out ways to navigate 7 dimensions of polycrisis, restore nature & secure a livable future. #FSS+4 climatevalue.exchange/2025/07/28/f...

ICJ finds nations have legal duty to act on climate The International Court of Justice has issued an Advisory Opinion finding that nations are obligated to act to reduce climate-related risk for their people and for other nations, and to foster clim…

The International Court of Justice has issued a landmark Advisory Opinion, finding that all nations are obligated under customary international law, including human rights law, to act to prevent harm from industrial climate disruption. #ClimateJustice #ICJ climatecivics.org/2025/07/23/i...

SB62 brief: Everyday climate rescue is the future A ‘Blue Note’ policy brief from Climate Civics and the Climate Value Exchange for negotiators at the SB62 round of United Nations Climate Change negotiations, in Bonn, Germany. As negot…

Our #SB62 policy brief urges all nations to support local climate solutions, welcome citizens into policy processes, incentivize healthy, regenerative #FoodSystems & work to make #ClimateAction part of the everyday economy. Everyday #ClimateRescue is the future. climatecivics.org/2025/06/06/s...

Over 3,300 Scientists Sound Alarm on Attacks Against NOAA in Open Letter Sent to Congress, Trump Administration UCS today delivered an open letter—with more than 3,300 signatory scientists and experts—to congressional leaders and Secretary Lutnick urging them to halt the ongoing assault on NOAA and restore staf...

Today, UCS delivered a letter signed by over 3,300 scientific experts calling on Congress and Commerce Secretary Lutnick to stop the dismantling of & illegal attacks on #NOAA. www.ucs.org/about/news/o...

Earth Month 2025: Expanding the space for good outcomes To close out Earth Month, we held a special virtual meeting with friends and allies of Climate Civics, on Wednesday, April 30. We had people joining from across Africa, as well as some in the Ameri…

Throughout #EarthMonth, we worked to create conditions for expanded opportunity, climate security & sustainable prosperity, launching the Climate Action & Food Systems Alliance (CAFSA), supporting Rights of Nature & developing a new civic engagement model. climatecivics.org/2025/04/30/e...

We can free ourselves from chaos Briefing note for the 2025 Spring Meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund From Climate Civics and the Climate Value Exchange What are we doing? 2025 has been so fa…

Intergovernmental meetings often take place in the midst of crisis. In 2025, this is a constant. Cooperation among allies is the bedrock of security & progress. Climate-smart trade, finance & food systems can free all nations from chaos & secure a livable future. climatecivics.org/2025/04/25/w...

We're seeing now that construction of EV and battery factories is being canceled, stopping the energy transition dead in its tracks. Trump's chaos has thrown the fossil fuel industry a lifeline.

Stop the loss of Climate Value; build a better future Key institutions and funding sources are facing an uncertain future; CCI is working to advance health-building sustainable food systems; complex challenges create real opportunity for shared progress.

Since global food crisis continues to become more likely, CCI has moved on a number of fronts to give stakeholders and policy-makers more actionable insights, to reorient mainstream activities and build a more secure future.

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CCI joins urgent call for Nutrition Security 'Moonshot' Effort 153 winners of Nobel & World Food prizes make unprecedented plea for financial & political backing for “moonshot” research to avoid a global hunger catastrophe in the next 25 years.

With ever-worsening climate disruption threatening access to food throughout the world, CCI signed on to a letter calling for financial and political backing to develop “moonshot” technologies to avert catastrophic hunger in the next 25 years.

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Interior to open millions of acres in Alaska to drilling and mining Trump officials said they would open parts of Alaska that Joe Biden made off-limits to oil and gas production, and build a gas pipeline across the state.

This is beyond sad. It is a crime against nature.

#Alaska #ClimateCrisis
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Zeldin was a member of the bipartisan Climate Solutions Caucus when he was in Congress. How many other Republicans greenwashed themselves and gaslighted their constituents by joining this caucus?

Global sea level rose higher than expected last year. Here’s why. Last year’s rate of average global sea level rise was 0.23 inches per year, higher than the expected 0.17 inches per year, NASA found. The rise follows are trend of rapidly increasing rates over the p...

Own beachfront property? You might be under water, and not just financially.

#ClimateCrisis #SeaLevelRise
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Not a good look for the COP process. Even worse if they knew this would have to be done when they selected Belem for the venue. Will there be a side event at #COP30 about reducing deforestation?

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Diplomacy under Pressure: The Belém Opportunity On Wednesday, March 12, 2025, CCI will host a special Earth Diplomacy Leadership event on The Belém Opportunity. Register here The 30th annual Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framew…

WEDNESDAY, March 12: Join our first workshop in the Earth Diplomacy Leadership training leading up to COP30 in Brazil later this year. Despite political headwinds, there are opportunities with finance and trade to move climate progress forward.

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This is the ultimate gaslighting. The impact of #ClimateChange will will cost us trillions in the coming decades. The current US government is in league with the fossil fuel industry, polluters who should pay for the damage they cause.

Rubio is a right-to-life Catholic who strongly opposes abortion, but he apparently has no problem cutting USAID programs that have saved millions of children's lives over the years.

Butterflies in the U.S. are disappearing at a ‘catastrophic’ rate The number of butterflies in the contiguous United States declined by 22 percent this century, a collapse with potentially dire implications.

The demise of butterflies & other pollinators — bees, fireflies — will trigger a food crisis. Our inability to coexist with nature will lead to humanity's downfall. We must stop using fossil fuels that heat our planet and pesticides that kill our agricultural allies.

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Belém is an opportunity to avoid costly economic breakdown The COP30 round of UN Climate Change negotiations in Belém, Brazil, offers many opportunities for expanding investment into climate action and its everyday benefits. In many ways, Belém provides a …

With #COP30 in Belém on the horizon, CCI's Joe Robertson (@joro.bsky.social) looks at the benefits we can gain by putting climate value at the heart of decisions we make on economics and trade.

#ClimateCrisis
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With despots being given the green light to grab land, this couldn't be happening at a worse time.

This current stabilizes the climate under which much of civilization has developed. If it shuts down, chaos ensues.

Levers of Acceleration for Finance in Common A Climate Civics International policy brief outlining tools and strategies for accelerated mobilization of wider pools of capital, through institutions and mechanisms participating in the Fina…

As a financial summit gathers in South Africa, CCI offers a policy brief on ways to get resources for climate and wealth equality to the places that need it.

#ClimateCrisis
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This is disgraceful. The Trump administration is intentionally sabotaging an important #IPCC report. Who benefits from this? Fossil fuel companies and petro-states hell bent on cooking our planet for the sake of short-term profits.

#ClimateCrisis

America needs climate science A statement from CCI Executive Director, Joseph Robertson The climate system is a naturally occurring fabric of energy exchange that covers our entire planet, includes the atmosphere and ocean, sha…

The retreat from government-funded science, particularly #ClimateScience, presents risks that our nation cannot afford. CCI's Joe Robertson looks at those risks in his statement...

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Breaking down the trillion-dollar risk posed by climate change This weekend's flooding in Kentucky is a reminder of nature's power, and how it can be amplified by climate change. According to climate risk modeling company First Street, climate change could cause ...

The cost of #ClimateChange, caused primarily from burning fossil fuels, is staggering. It will result is property values dropping by more than a trillion dollars.

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Kind of a no-brainer, but it bears mentioning: Carbon capture is not the best way to deal with the #ClimateCrisis

There is a huge misperception about foreign aid. Americans think it is 25% of the federal budget and they think it *should* be 10%. The actual percentage of the budget is 1%. That 1% provides a lot of help for people in need, helps U.S. farmers, and improves our global security.

This waste of food meant to feed the hungry is absolutely criminal and immoral.