Our mission is a better future.
Climate Value is a collaborative effort to raise ambition and accelerate implementation of successful climate-resilient development.
The Stakes
Unchecked climate change will empty public budgets, while devastating lives, collapsing economies and destabilizing nation states.
The Opportunity
Climate-resilient development is the best chance of future thriving, both for vulnerable communities and for those favored by the status quo.
The Way Forward
Overlapping multilateral cooperative arrangements can secure and accelerate the transition to thriving climate-smart economies.
Transcending crisis, thriving together.
From our blog
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Cooperative innovation in energy, food, finance & trade can halt climate breakdown
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 Agreement. 32 years have passed since the community of nations formally agreed to “prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system”. Since the…
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Journey to Baku: Earth Diplomacy Leadership for the year ahead
The Earth Diplomacy Leadership Initiative is a series of trainings on intergovernmental policy processes, and related diplomatic strategy, co-convened by Citizens’ Climate International and The Fletcher School at Tufts University. Earth Diplomacy Leadership workshops prepare diplomats and observers, as well as scholars, media, and other stakeholders and decision-makers, for intergovernmental processes that shape humanity’s response…
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Crop yields threatened by climate change impacts
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 systems, which bring together nutrients, water, patterns of temperature and precipitation at specific times of year, and numerous ecological factors. All of these factors…
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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 Agreement, which gave an active role to every nation in shaping a future of successful climate-resilient development and sustainable shared prosperity. Since then, we have seen…
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Crunch time for a livable climate future
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 agreement to prevent dangerous human-caused climate change, and global emissions continue to rise. We know that global heating of…
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Mapping Earth systems value to action
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-sharing practice. The Talanoa Dialogue asked three questions, and gave participants the freedom to organize nearly any kind of meeting, and to respond to these questions in the way…
Investment decisions have consequences.
The Climate Value Exchange is working to advance multidimensional cooperation agreements and innovative metrics to make sure investments, trade, and everyday economic dynamics are sustainable and good for everyone.
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