August 2025 – Climate Civics
1 post published by Joseph Robertson during August 2025| Climate Civics
1 post published by Joseph Robertson during August 2025| Climate Civics
Threats to human security, political stability, and sustainable prosperity are spreading; the possibility of a rights-focused climate-resilient economy provides important leverage for reversing tha…| Climate Civics
The government of the United States has a fundamental responsibility to exercise public authority to protect the American people, and people in other nations, from preventable harm caused by climate pollution. This duty is embodied in the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States, which commits the government to: establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide […]| Climate Civics
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 Civics
The Paris Agreement points to a future of reduced risk & improved outcomes for all. Can the COP29 agree to take us there? The Paris Agreement is focused on international cooperative response to…| Climate Civics
Topline takeaways World’s highest court finds all nations have a legal responsibility to act to reduce climate risk. Climate protection and a healthy, clean environment are implicit in all ot…| Climate Civics
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 Civics
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 important work, but real-world action is still lagging far behind what is needed, and there needs to be more good faith—and less stalling—in the process of reaching consensus to […]| Climate Civics
Bold climate cooperation can emerge from the second week of the SB62 round of negotiations in Bonn… if countries choose to favor action, investment, and transformation, over further debate an…| Climate Civics
6 posts published by Climate Civics International, Joseph Robertson, and Steve Valk during March 2025| Climate Civics
5 posts published by Joseph Robertson and Climate Civics International during June 2025| Climate Civics
In mid-year climate talks between 197 nations this past week in Bonn, Germany, there have been calls from both wealthy and developing countries for clear, agreed guidance to support mainstream banks, large and small, in starting to act as climate banks. This is a critical stop toward activating the mandate of Article 2.1(c) of the Paris Agreement, […]| Climate Civics
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 Civics
Early on Saturday, Rep. Melissa Hortman—the leader of the Democratic Farmer Labor (DFL) Party in the Minnesota House of Representatives—was assassinated at her home, along with her husband. She served in the legislature for more than 20 years and for five years served as House Speaker. Sen. John Hoffman, also a lawmaker with the DFL […]| Climate Civics
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 action into everyday experience. For this, we reviewed the important connections between climate and food systems—a theme that will be followed up by the Climate Action and Food […]| Climate Civics
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 Civics
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…| Climate Civics
A contribution to the High-Level Meeting on Harmony with Nature and Living Well – United Nations Headquarters, New York, 22 April 2025 We are living in a time of unique peril and responsibility. Ou…| Climate Civics
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 …| Climate Civics
In an open letter signed by 153 winners of the Nobel Prize and World Food Prize, the signatories warned that the world was “not even close” to meeting future food needs, with an estimated…| Climate Civics
Trade is leverage for climate rescue & resilience-building Report from a special virtual forum to discuss levers for advancing climate-smart trade and finance, as modes of sustainable human dev…| Climate Civics
Belem opportunity – draft outcome 2025-0319 Political preferences do not make climate change a non-problem. In fact, evidence shows global heating and climate disruption are accelerating, whi…| Climate Civics
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 Civics
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…| Climate Civics
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 threate…| Climate Civics
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, hope…| Climate Civics
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 Civics
This piece was originally published in 2019 as a comment on the COP24 round of UN Climate Change negotiations in Katowice, Poland. It is republished here in recognition of the fact the pervasive an…| Climate Civics
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 resourcing of the…| Climate Civics
This virtual meeting took place on Friday, November 22, as the COP29 was scheduled to wind down and finalize agreed outcomes. Wide remaining differences of views on the proposed draft outcome on th…| Climate Civics
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 Civics
