The Earth Day Citizens’ Forum is an annual event hosted by Citizens’ Climate International, focused on celebrating and advancing civics as a critical tool for raising climate ambition and achieving a livable future. Thursday, April 2109:00 EDT | 13:00 UTC | 14:00 WAT | 15:00 CEST | 18:30 IST | 21:00 PHST | 22:00 JST In this year’s Forum we will: Highlight examples of volunteer … Continue reading EDCF2022 – Earth Day Citizens’ Forum
The Earth Day Citizens’ Forum—co-convened by Citizens’ Climate International (CCI) and the Earth Day Network—brought people from 6 continents together to highlight, celebrate, and build momentum for citizen participation as a catalyst for enhanced climate ambition. Since the world agreed “to prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system” in 1992, citizen participation has been far too marginal a part of the climate policy process. … Continue reading Earth Day Citizens’ Forum celebrates volunteer policy advocates
Shortly after arriving at the Oval Office, President Joe Biden signed a number of executive orders. The third of these restored the United States to the Paris Agreement. This recommitment to global climate action leadership is historic, necessary, and a great benefit to the US and the world. The climate crisis is complex, operates across many different interacting natural systems, spans the ocean, atmosphere, glaciers, … Continue reading Biden brings US back to Paris
Today marks 5 years from the day the Paris Agreement was finalized, at the end of the 21st annual global conference on implementation of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (the COP21). The Paris Agreement was historic for a number of reasons. Chief among them: Nearly 200 nations committed to cooperate in the effort to end global heating emissions and stave off catastrophic climate … Continue reading Five Years after Paris, the race to resilience is underway
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
Resilience Intel Principles for Reinventing Prosperity We urge the nations of the G20 to lead the world in putting these principles into practice, starting right away, to ensure a rapid, inclusive, sustainable recovery from the COVID crisis. The COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly, and radically, altered the everyday assumptions of people around the world. Where science has guided decision-making, the virus has done less damage; where … Continue reading Rebuilding for a Better Future
CARTA ABIERTA AL PRESIDENTE ANDRES MANUEL LOPEZ OBRADOR Tema: Política de Confiabilidad, Seguridad y Continuidad en el Sistema Eléctrico Nacional Señor Presidente: Reciba un cordial saludo departe de Citizens’ Climate Lobby. Somos un movimiento global de más de 180,000 personas que trabajan para empoderar ciudadanos a colaborar con sus gobernantes en soluciones climáticas a nivel nacional e internacional. Trabajamos en México desde hace cuatro años. … Continue reading Carta abierta al Presidente de México de Ciudadanos por un Clima Vivible
Postponement of COP26 provides opportunity for deep collaborative work to achieve a more resilient & prosperous future. On Wednesday, April 1, 2020, the UN Climate Change secretariat and the UK Government—which holds the COP26 Presidency—announced the annual UN climate negotiations will be postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic emergency. The conference—which will be the largest ever held in Scotland, bringing together more than 25,000 diplomats, … Continue reading Time for Co-Creating a Resilient Future
CCE Submission for the Next Phase of ACE Implementation This submission is offered in response to mandate: Decision 15/CP.25, paragraph 3—by Citizens’ Climate Education, on behalf of the Engage4Climate Network and local volunteer chapters of Citizens’ Climate Lobby in 55 countries—and offers “recommendations and views on future work to enhance the implementation of Article 6 of the Convention and Article 12 of the Paris Agreement”. … Continue reading Doha Work Programme Review – CCE submission
How much do we value human freedom? For thousands of years people of all variety of experience and influence have debated whether free will exists and which universe would be more full of virtue and good fortune—one that is fated or one that is free. Today, technology is flooding our experience with hard-to-trace information and options, conditioning the choices we make. Powerful interests are pushing … Continue reading 2020 Vision: Deciding to Be Free
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