Food systems are under threat & can be a leading climate solution; Trump admin cutting access to weather data; extreme heat in Arctic waters; Congress aims to protect National Weather Service. navigatornews.substack.com/p/food-secur...

Food security, lives & overall prosperity are at risk, as climate disruption worsens

Food systems are under threat & can be a leading climate solution; Trump admin cutting access to weather data; extreme heat in Arctic waters; Congress aims to protect National Weather Service.

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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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All nations are required to act to reduce human-caused climate disruption. Businesses that lead the way in supporting climate risk & opportunity insights & solutions will be more and more in demand. #ClimateJustice #ICJ #ActiveValue #LivableFuture activv.net/2025/07/23/i...

International Court of Justice finds climate action is a legal responsibility

In 2023, the United Nations General Assembly, made up of 193 nations, formally requested an Advisory Opinion from the Internatinoal Court of Justice (ICJ) on two questions: What are the obligations…

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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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In 2020, during the first Trump admin, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission found that climate change poses a major risk to the stability of the U.S. financial system and to its ability to sustain the American economy. climatevalue.exchange/2024/04/02/c...

CFTC finds climate change puts US financial system at risk

This report was published September 9, 2020, by Geoversiv and Resilience Intel. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has issued a new report, outlining the serious climate risk facing the …

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40 Years ago Carl Sagan knew about Climate change and he was so aware of it's impact on Nature more than us we do right now.

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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Will we choose a future that favors the health & resilience of both nature & people, or will we surrender to corrosive forces that ignore science, suppress & delay justice, destroy nature & disregard rights? climatevalue.exchange/2025/02/11/l...

Local Financial Innovation—A Capital to Communities Update

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, …

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#ClimateChange is the greatest risk to food production in the world. Having US Ag ignore climate risk will increase the chances of people being unable to buy food and going hungry.

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has directed agency officials to review and remove content related to climate change from its public websites👀, according to internal emails obtained by ABC News😢. abcnews.go.com/US/usda-orde...

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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#ClimateValue is the missing piece of so much economic & financial activity. It is measurable, but under-reported. Subsidies tend to devalue it & favor destructive practices. Communities that need diversified resilience economies are missing out. navigatornews.substack.com/p/climate-va...

Climate Value: The missing piece

Last month, the Climate Value Exchange partners, which support The Navigator, identified key areas of measurable Climate Value that are being under-reported and need urgent attention in 2025.

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Are you registered for our Feb webinar? Join us 26 Feb, 12.00-12.40pm to hear Dr Carrie Bradshaw, @lawatleeds.bsky.social, deliver 'Good Samaritan laws and surplus food - a solution in need of a problem?'. Register for free here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/good-samar....

Meanwhile, the world is facing a potential hunger catastrophe, if major #foodsystems transformation does not happen. 153 winners of the World Food Prize and Nobel Prizes are calling for a #foodsecurity moonshot, to fund research & innovation. navigatornews.substack.com/p/leaders-ca...

Leaders call for food security moonshot

Warning of a looming hunger catastrophe that will affect every region of the world, 153 winners of Nobel Prizes and the World Food Prize are calling for major investment in new food systems research.

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There is no 'energy emergency', and no emergency gives the occupant of the Oval Office authority to selectively void rights written into the Constitution. Emergency powers cannot be used to circumvent the law. navigatornews.substack.com/p/emergency-...

Emergency powers cannot be used to circumvent the Constitution

There is no 'energy emergency', and no emergency gives the occupant of the Oval Office authority to selectively void rights written into the Constitution.

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Guterres told the leaders of major banks, many of whom pulled out of climate agreements... that they were “on the wrong side of history, the wrong side of science and the wrong side of consumers who are looking for more sustainability, not less”. #ClimateCrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

World’s addiction to fossil fuels is ‘Frankenstein’s monster’, says UN chief

António Guterres issues warning at Davos, days after Donald Trump pulled US out of Paris climate agreement

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Physics does not care about our politics, and ultimately the world will continue to warm until we get global emissions of CO2 to (net) zero.

One month, and 2400 - 5000 tonnes of spilled heavy fuel later, the sinking Russian shadow fleet tanker being used to evade sanctions and import oil to Europe, is still leaking into the Black Sea. UPDATE HERE>> bit.ly/4gUBony

💬Countries have agreed to the 1.5°C global warming limit not out of convenience but out of necessity to limit harm and suffering of people. Read Prof. @joerirogelj.bsky.social & Dr @robinlamboll.bsky.social's comments after @metoffice.bsky.social's latest warning regarding rising CO2 levels 🧵

Met Office - weather and climate@metoffice.gov.uk · 2y ago

🌍 CO2 Forecast 2025: The Mauna Loa observatory predicts a rise in CO2 levels to 426.6 ± 0.6 ppm in 2025. This continues the alarming trend of increasing atmospheric CO2 👉 bit.ly/4ghvdcl #GetClimateReady #CO2Forecast

"Equinor has retracted a claim that it stores about a million tonnes of carbon dioxide annually at its flagship carbon capture project after DeSmog obtained data showing the real figure was as little as a tenth of that amount" Wait what, fossil fuel companies aren't trustworthy?

Exclusive: Norway’s Equinor Forced to Withdraw Key Carbon Capture Claim

This story is the tenth part of a DeSmog series on carbon capture and was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe. Equinor has retracted a claim that it stores about a million tonnes of ca...

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The infrastructure, incentives & economics of housing are all #ClimateValue issues. More choices, of the right kind, with more affordability & flexibility… these are indicators & drivers of resilience. www.vox.com/housing/3950...

It’s a make-or-break moment for housing in California

The future of the state depends on how leaders rebuild after the Los Angeles fires.

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Our #ClimateValue update highlights calls for reform to international climate cooperation, finance & trade; the need to treat Baku #climatefinance commitments as the floor, not the ceiling; the right to open, factual information; & new climate jurisprudence. climatevalue.exchange/2024/12/20/u...

Urgent imperatives & emerging opportunities (Climate Value status update)

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…

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In 1992, nearly 200 nations agreed to “prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system”. We are now living with that danger every day. We must limit global heating to 1.5°C & we must get the work done by 2040. climatevalue.exchange/2024/02/27/b...

Better Future 2040

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…

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Our #ClimateValue update highlights calls for reform to international climate cooperation, finance & trade; the need to treat Baku #climatefinance commitments as the floor, not the ceiling; the right to open, factual information; & new climate jurisprudence. climatevalue.exchange/2024/12/20/u...

Urgent imperatives & emerging opportunities (Climate Value status update)

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…

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"The growth of AI has been called the “savior” of the gas industry. In Virginia alone, the data center capital of the world, a new state report found that AI demand could add a new 1.5 gigawatt gas plant every two years for 15 consecutive years." Wow!

Emily Atkin@emorwee.bsky.social · 2y ago

To fuel AI, Big Tech is now partnering with Big Oil and pipeline companies to supply fossil fuels directly to their data centers. “There is just no possible way to achieve net zero" under this type of gas expansion Crazy stuff today from @ariellesamuel.bsky.social: heated.world/p/ai-is-guzz...

📣New research!📣ESA and NASA satellites deliver first joint picture of Greenland Ice Sheet melting. A new study from CPOM scientists shows CryoSat-2 and ICESat-2 measurements of Greenland Ice Sheet elevation change agree to within 3%: cpom.org.uk/esa-and-nasa... #newresearch #earthobservation #polar

Non-market climate cooperation encompasses everything that is not emissions trading. Groups of 2 or more countries can activate the #ClimateValue economy by working together on food, ag, banking, manufacturing, shipping, tech & more. climatevalue.exchange/2023/06/05/n...

Non-market approaches as critical drivers of climate ambition

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 …

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Biodiversity hit to economies estimated at up to $25tn a year in landmark report Equivalent of one-quarter of global GDP lost annually, report by 165 scientists finds www.ft.com/content/fed3... via @ft

Biodiversity hit to economies estimated at up to $25tn a year in landmark report

Equivalent of one-quarter of global GDP lost annually, report by 165 scientists finds

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Last week marked 9 years since the #ParisAgreement. Despite all the innovation & planning, #ClimateAction is still lagging: Emissions are still rising; ice & glaciers are declining; costs are in the tens of trillions USD. Future prosperity requires action now. climatevalue.exchange/2024/12/12/n...

Nine years after Paris: what COP29 means for our collective future

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,…

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