August 2025 – Climate Value Exchange
2 posts published by Joseph Robertson during August 2025| Climate Value Exchange
2 posts published by Joseph Robertson during August 2025| Climate Value Exchange
Critics of subsidies and mandates for clean energy, energy efficiency, and electric vehicles, say these technologies should be able to compete on a level playing field. Fossil fuels still enjoy wor…| Climate Value Exchange
The Paris Agreement calls on all Parties (the countries joining it) to publish Nationally Determined Contributions (to the global climate crisis response) every five years. The first were finalized in 2015, alongside the Paris Agreement; the 2nd round came in 2020 and 2021, some delayed by COVID; the third round are being released this year, […]| Climate Value Exchange
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…| Climate Value Exchange
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…| Climate Value Exchange
4 posts published by Joseph Robertson, Geoversiv, and Climate Civics International during April 2024| Climate Value Exchange
The following report was published October 25, 2021, by Geoversiv and Resilience Intel. The Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) has issued a 133-page report recognizing…| Climate Value Exchange
6 posts published by Climate Civics International and Joseph Robertson during April 2025| Climate Value Exchange
The Principles for Reinventing Prosperity were published in September 2020, as guidance to G20 countries, after months of consultations through the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic emergency. …| Climate Value Exchange
The Climate Action and Food Systems Alliance (CAFSA) is a coalition of voices for climate-resilient food systems, convened by Climate Civics and the Global Initiative for Food Security and Ecosyste…| Climate Value Exchange
In 2023, the United Nations General Assembly formally asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to issue an advisory opinion on the obligations of states with regard to climate change, under international law. The request asked for legal findings on two core questions: On Wednesday, July 23, 2025, the ICJ issued its landmark Advisory Opinion on the […]| Climate Value Exchange
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…| Climate Value Exchange
The SB62 round of United Nations Climate Change negotiations have concluded in Bonn, Germany. The key takeaway for many participants and observers seems to be: The SB62 advanced some…| Climate Value Exchange
6 posts published by Joseph Robertson and Climate Civics International during November 2024| Climate Value Exchange
Time is money. What we mean when we say that is there is value in having more time, more resources, more health and resilience, and delaying action when you have time to avoid terrible co…| Climate Value Exchange
6 posts published by Climate Civics International, Geoversiv, and Joseph Robertson during June 2025| Climate Value Exchange
In June 2025, as the Parties to the U.N. Climate Convention (197 nations plus the European Union, with member states among the 197) meet in Bonn, Germany, for the 62nd round of negotiations among the Subsidiary Bodies (SB62), we are seeing grave political and geophysical disruptions across the world. Geophysical impacts, proliferating cost and risk, […]| Climate Value Exchange
In its flagship Recipe for a Livable Planet report, the World Bank found that Agrifood is a bigger contributor to climate change than many think. It generates almost a third of GHG emissions, averaging around 16 gigatons annually. This is about one-sixth more than all of the world’s heat and electricity emissions. This has several far-reaching practical […]| Climate Value Exchange
To achieve enduring prosperity, we need to address climate risk, reduce impacts, and build resilience, in ways that heal economic disparities. Two months after 196 nations gathered in Paris to negotiate the most important implementation agreement for global climate action, the Paris Agreement, Geoversiv released a short brief titled ACCESS to GOOD, through the Engage4Climate Network, […]| Climate Value Exchange
The SB62 round of Earth Diplomacy Leadership workshops explored complexities and leverage points in The Process, while asking detailed questions about ways to bring climate policy and act…| Climate Value Exchange
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…| Climate Value Exchange
Two Earth Diplomacy Leadership sessions June 5 will focus on practical ways of mainstreaming climate solutions—food systems and banking. On Thursday, June 5, to mark World Environment Day, we will …| Climate Value Exchange
The SB62 cycle of Earth Diplomacy Leadership workshops will take place between Monday, June 2 and Monday, June 9. We will host two sessions on Thursday, June 5, to mark World Environment …| Climate Value Exchange
May 2025 Climate Value Exchange actionable insights brief In May 2025, the global climate disruption challenge is intensifying. The most significant features of this critical moment are: The …| Climate Value Exchange
It is often said the climate challenge is as much a political and moral challenge as it is a technical one. In technical terms, science gives us the evidence we need to address climate-related prob…| Climate Value Exchange
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…| Climate Value Exchange
NOTE: A version of this article was originally published by Resilience Intel and Liberate Systems, in 2023. It has been updated with 2025 context and relevant strategic insights. Time is money.&nbs…| Climate Value Exchange
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 dee…| Climate Value Exchange
The Climate Action and Food Systems Alliance (CAFSA.net) is a coalition of voices for climate-resilient food systems, convened by Climate Civics and the Global Initiative for Food Se…| Climate Value Exchange
Climate disruption is causing real-life devastating consequences, and creating unprecedented levels of compounding risks for people, communities, industries, and nations. These intersecting and com…| Climate Value Exchange
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…| Climate Value Exchange
Part 1 – Gathering insights on what is needed to make building Climate Value an everyday economic activity Climate Value Exchange partners have been gathering insights on Activating the Climate Val…| Climate Value Exchange
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 insi…| Climate Value Exchange
Much ink and light has been spilled over the backlash against ESG (which is shorthand for standards and ratings that measure performance on environmental, social, and governance value-bui…| Climate Value Exchange
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 …| Climate Value Exchange
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 …| Climate Value Exchange
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 i…| Climate Value Exchange
In a dangerous attempt to suppress evidence and move America backward on climate crisis response, Donald Trump is attempting to end consideration of the “social cost of carbon”. The move is include…| Climate Value Exchange
Two and a half years after we released the Capital to Communities report, we see the access of local communities to capital that supports climate risk reduction and resilience building threatened, …| Climate Value Exchange
Climate Value Exchange briefing note, reporting from December 2024 monthly meeting During the December 2024 monthly planning meeting for the Climate Value Exchange, we shared views on the COP29, it…| Climate Value Exchange
Today marks 9 years from the day the Paris Agreement was established as the consensus outcome from the COP21 round of UN Climate Change negotiations. That moment was one of jubilation, relief,…| Climate Value Exchange
The shift toward a climate-smart banking system will be a learning-by-doing process. It needs to happen everywhere, at every scale, starting now. Climate disruption is advancing around the world, c…| Climate Value Exchange
Key messages: New finance commitments are meaningful progress, but funding targets must be seen as a floor, not a ceiling. Much more is needed to achieve justice and the practical resou…| Climate Value Exchange
An interactive look at Article 6.8 of the Paris Agreement and its potential to bring about a transition to climate-smart trade, finance, and everyday economics, in all regions. Thursday, November 2…| Climate Value Exchange
The debate about ESG investing is not what you think it is. Anyone with assets to protect has to ask how to avoid proportional risk attached to unsustainable practices. The evidence is clear: Human…| Climate Value Exchange
The first week of the COP29 has seen negotiators from nearly 200 nations struggling through many long-running barriers to progress, while advancing important logistical questions around insight-sha…| Climate Value Exchange
The Climate Civics International briefing note on transformational areas of work for COP29 in Baku A safe, resilient, and livable climate future is possible. That should be the subtext of ever…| Climate Value Exchange
The COP29 cycle of Earth Diplomacy Leadership workshops has delivered important insights about the risks and opportunities in the Baku negotiations, and suggested a number of overarching goals that…| Climate Value Exchange
This week, the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund will hold their Annual Meetings in Marrakech, Morocco. The meetings could be historic—both for consolidating long-term tran…| Climate Value Exchange
As the world moved toward the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, it became evident nations were going to need to find a way to structurally transform incentives across their economies, and they would ne…| Climate Value Exchange
Talanoa: Sharing in truth In 2018, the Fijian Presidency of the UN Climate Change Negotiations convened the Talanoa Dialogue—a global consultation organized around a traditional Pacific story-shari…| Climate Value Exchange
Geophysical and market-driven risks require active integration of complex non-financial value considerations into mainstream financial decision-making. The future of finance will be less exploitati…| Climate Value Exchange
The SB60 negotiations can create new momentum for the climate value economy. Earth Diplomacy Leadership workshops provide critical insights for cooperative acceleration. Ahead of the SB60 round of …| Climate Value Exchange
The SB60 round of UNFCCC negotiations could open a door to the great promise of climate-resilient development, but the Bonn Conference also comes at a time when the world community risks permanentl…| Climate Value Exchange
The Integrated Data Systems Initiative is a five-year innovation sprint, organized by the Good Food Finance Network (GFFN) and recognized by the 2023 Agriculture Innovation Mission (AIM) for Climat…| Climate Value Exchange
Climate disruption and nature loss are putting food systems at risk. To avoid the destabilizing effects of pervasive food insecurity, urgent action is needed to improve food-related finance, and ho…| Climate Value Exchange
Ahead of the Spring Meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, CCI is calling for a significant increase in multilateral climate cooperation, in line with Article 6.8 of the Paris …| Climate Value Exchange
By Michael Terungwa David, PhD Climate change threatens to undermine food production in Benue state, the food basket of Nigeria. The food we consume depends on a reliable background of natural syst…| Climate Value Exchange
In 1992, nearly 200 nations agreed to “prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system”. In 2015, the 197 Parties to the Climate Convention (the COP) adopted the Paris Ag…| Climate Value Exchange
It’s crunch time for our climate future. We are living through a worsening storm of hard impacts, and all of the ways forward are rocky. We are more than 30 years on from the historic global …| Climate Value Exchange
What is non-market climate cooperation? It’s how groups of countries can make climate value central to their dealings, with benefits across the whole economy. In 1992, nearly 200 nations agre…| Climate Value Exchange
Earth Diplomacy Leadership Initiative COP28 Outcomes: Making new law for climate-smart transformation Wednesday, January 10, 2024 09:00-11:00 EST / 14:00-16:00 UTC 14:00 London / 15:00 Lagos / 15:0…| Climate Value Exchange
As we near the end of Week 1 of the COP28, there is consensus that ambition needs to rise quickly. Accelerated timelines & mobilization of expanded funds for transformational climate action are…| Climate Value Exchange
The COP is, as we all know, a vast and complex landscape of actors, alliances, and initiatives, all of which have contact with the negotiation process. We are seeing that wider landscape push the p…| Climate Value Exchange
The 28th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28) delivered some of the vital ingredients of the needed global breakthrough on climate: T…| Climate Value Exchange
The Climate Value Exchange is a collaborative multistakeholder endeavor, aimed at coordinated upgrading of climate ambition, through policies and cooperative arrangements designed to provide everyd…| Climate Value Exchange
How cooperation & solidarity can address the climate crisis at speed & at scale Introduction When the COVID pandemic disrupted lives and livelihoods across the world, the CCI team held regu…| Climate Value Exchange
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 …| Climate Value Exchange
The 2023 Reinventing Prosperity Report, from the Resilience Intelligence program of Citizens’ Climate International Topline Takeaways The Right to Resilience is an operational imperative. Not…| Climate Value Exchange
