June 2023 – Blue Notes
4 posts published by Joseph Robertson during June 2023| Blue Notes
Briefing note for the 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 big questions looming about the future of food systems, globally, at regional and national levels, and in terms of what is available to people, locally, in their […]| Blue Notes
The International Court of Justice has issued an Advisory Opinion [PDF] finding that nations are obligated to act to reduce climate-related risk for their people and for other nations, an…| Blue Notes
A 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 negotiators gather in Bonn, Germany, for the 62nd meeting of the Subsidiary Bodies of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (SB62), they will be faced with […]| Blue Notes
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 far a time of deep turmoil, destabilizing long-standing alliances, financial markets, trade relations, food prices, and vast reservoirs wealth. Across the world, future-building potential is at risk […]| Blue Notes
On Wednesday, March 26, 2025, CCI convened Part 1 of the Good Food Finance Network’s Data Systems Integration Forum. This virtual discussion forum focused on work needed to activate insights from the Good Food Finance Blueprint for Data Systems Integration, released last year. The aim of this interactive forum is to establish parameters for early and advanced […]| Blue Notes
Cities are increasingly important in the work of shaping human access to health and wellbeing. As more of the world’s population moves to cities, decisions that determine whether air and water are clean and safe, and how food is acquired and distributed in local economies, may determine how long people live and how free they […]| Blue Notes
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 unique opportunity to take those benefits far beyond clmate priorities, to support improved conditions across whole economies. For a long time, one of the great […]| Blue Notes
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 Finance in Common Summit and network. 2024 was the hottest year on record. In fact, it was far hotter than expected, and new evidence suggests the reason is relatively simple: global heating has been […]| Blue Notes
CCI briefing note on COP29 focus areas A safe, resilient, and livable climate future is possible. That should be the subtext of every headline about climate disruption and our response. We can…| Blue Notes
Overview of existing and prospective non-market approaches, as outlined in the May 2022 Synthesis Report, prepared by the UNFCCC Secretariat, on Views and information referred to in paragraph 6 of …| Blue Notes
As we approach Earth Day 2025, the conditions for long-term preservation and expansion of Climate Value are far from ideal. Below, we review some of the pressures at work in early 2025, and then po…| Blue Notes
Report from a special virtual forum Advancing Climate-Smart Trade and Finance, exploring value-building international cooperation to drive sustainable human development Article 6.8 of the Paris Agr…| Blue Notes
CCI briefing note, putting forward a 7-point action agenda for the G7 and allied nations, to support the acceleration of global climate action, through enhanced cooperation, incentives, and investm…| Blue Notes
Briefing note for negotiators, observers, and relevant institutional arrangements at SB58 and on the way to COP28 Escalating Risk Finance is a way of mapping today’s wealth to future outcomes…| Blue Notes
Briefing note for negotiators, observers, and relevant institutional arrangements at SB58 and on the way to COP28 The Importance of Article 6.8 of the Paris Agreement Article 6, paragraph 8 of the …| Blue Notes
STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLES Human Rights are Foundational Climate policy is not a game; the stakes could not possibly be higher. The future integrity of food systems, local and national economies, and …| Blue Notes
Briefing note representing stakeholders’ views and concerns for ongoing reform of multilateral development finance SUBMITTED TO THE WORLD BANK ON JULY 25, 2023 Citizens’ Climate International works…| Blue Notes
Translating IPCC science into Resilience Intelligence guidance on accelerated pathways to net zero This week, the IPCC issued its Synthesis Report for the 6th Assessment — a multi-year gl…| Blue Notes
It is the unwritten background insight underlying all international climate policy debate and negotiation that success will mean all trade is climate-smart, along with the everyday economy, everywh…| Blue Notes
