Earth Civics
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We work to develop new opportunities for climate-related civic engagement, from local to national, to international, policy processes. You are a climate stakeholder. https://earthcivics.org/
The worsening planetary crisis does not wait for politics or economics; impacts are spreading, costs are rising & human security is deteriorating. We need to start making progress everywhere possible, without further delay. #EarthMonth #EarthCivics #SDGs earthcivics.org/2026/04/22/n...
The Boundary Waters are a pristine wilderness on the border of Minnesota with Canada. The ability of a society to preserve, protect, and defend, such wild places is a measure of that society’s ability to do the same for human health. #SaveTheBoundaryWaters #EarthDay earthcivics.org/2026/04/20/b...
The Boundary Waters stand for human health & safety
The Boundary Waters are a pristine wilderness on the border of Minnesota with Canada. Their conserved, clean, and natural state is one of the great achievements of American civics, democracy, and e…
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Seeing our home planet through the eyes of four intrepid voyagers, who traveled beyond the Moon, we see that civic engagement needs to be open, ongoing, and include all of us. This is the purpose of Earth Civics. earthcivics.org/2026/04/20/m...
For a future of resilient prosperity
Earth Civics is inspired, in part, by the Artemis II mission around the Moon, which reinvigorated public interest in understanding Earth as a planetary system. Our project builds on more than a dec…
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This #EarthDay, pause to consider how our home planet, the one place we know to harbor life, provides for & sustains us. We must say No to reckless destruction & yes to cooperative stewardship. earthcivics.org/2026/04/22/n...
No to reckless destruction, yes to cooperative stewardship
When we talk about the health and wellbeing of our planet, we are talking about our planet’s ability to provide conditions for our health and wellbeing. Earth is under unprecedented stress fr…
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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 …
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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...
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 …
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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...
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…
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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...
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…
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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...
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…
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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...
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...
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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...
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…
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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 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…
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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. #ClimateCrisis livingfutures.net/p/stop-the-l...
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.
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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. #ClimateCrisis climatecivics.news/p/cci-joins-...
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.
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This is beyond sad. It is a crime against nature. #Alaska #ClimateCrisis wapo.st/41GoYcF
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.
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Own beachfront property? You might be under water, and not just financially. #ClimateCrisis #SeaLevelRise wapo.st/4kxVdU7
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...
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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? #ClimateCrisis
🦀 CRABTAILS 🦀@crabtails.bsky.social · 2y agoThis article perfectly captures the failed international effort to combat climate change www.bbc.com/news/article...
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. #ClimateCrisis climatecivics.org/2025/03/05/d...
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…
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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.
Scott Waldman@scottpwaldman.bsky.social · 2y agoThe outlines of a White House plan to produce a government science report that highlights the "benefits" of climate change is coming together. The intent is to expand presidential power, target regulations and fight litigation filed against fossil fuel companies. www.eenews.net/articles/tru...
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. #ClimateCrisis wapo.st/41qhPNv
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.
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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 climatevalue.exchange/2025/03/05/b...
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 …
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This current stabilizes the climate under which much of civilization has developed. If it shuts down, chaos ensues.
Bob Berwyn@bberwyn.bsky.social · 2y agoThe Antarctic Circumpolar Current mixes together water, heat, carbon dioxide and nutrients from the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans in the planet’s most powerful climate cauldron. New research shows that freshwater from melting ice threatens the stability of the current.
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 cciblue.com/2025/02/26/l...
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…
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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
Scott Dance@byscottdance.com · 2y agoTrump could be derailing a major global climate report. The administration terminated a NASA contract for work overseeing one-third of the next major IPCC report, focused on what we can do to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and remove some of the planet-warming gases from the atmosphere.
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... #ClimateCrisis climatecivics.org/2025/02/21/a...
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…
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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. www.cbsnews.com/video/breaki...
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 ...
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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
Hacker News 50@betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 2y agoCarbon capture more costly than switching to renewables, researchers find https://techxplore.com/news/2025-02-carbon-capture-renewables.html (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43058997)
This waste of food meant to feed the hungry is absolutely criminal and immoral.
Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal@jayapal.house.gov · 2y agoNearly HALF A BILLION DOLLARS of food is rotting because of Trump and Elon’s illegal USAID freeze. Food that would have fed hungry children and saved lives — being wasted. www.cbsnews.com/news/usaid-t...
Backsliding on climate goals will ensure catastrophe in the future. If we want a livable world, citizens must demand that their governments take action. #ClimateCrisis @chicoharlan.bsky.social wapo.st/4gvYDDn
Most of the world’s big polluters just blew off a major climate deadline
Most countries failed to submit national emissions plans to the United Nations, suggesting that the global framework for addressing climate change is wobbling.
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As the world gathers to discuss financing for development (& with all the counterproductive actions of a lawless few) @climatecivics.bsky.social & @climatevalue.bsky.social have released a new #CapitalToCommunities report. We are all future-builders. climatevalue.exchange/2025/02/11/l...
Local Financial Innovation—A Capital to Communities Update
Background 2 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 thr…
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