About the Climate Value Exchange

The Climate Value Exchange is a collaborative multistakeholder endeavor, aimed at coordinated upgrading of climate ambition, through policies and cooperative arrangements designed to provide everyday benefits to local economies, human security, the macroeconomy and nature. The goal is to create the zero-carbon economy that eliminates pollution and provides new, more diversified means of sustainable thriving.

To do this, we support policy design and implementation that meets core climate and development goals, across all of the SDGs, with specific emphasis on: 

Climate Value emerged from the work of Citizens’ Climate International, to identify high-integrity, resilience-building modes of international cooperation, in line with Article 6.8 of the Paris Agreement, and the PARIS Principles. Our mission will be structured around the following standards:

1. We need to accelerate the transition to climate-resilient priorities and practices;
2. Earth system insights need to be linked to financial decision-making in material terms, providing new insights into investment risk and return;
3. National economies need to diversify and develop methods of benefiting from sustainable, regenerative approaches, reducing dependency on extractive industries;
4. Public participation is critical, for informing policies and investments that are relevant, rooted, effective, and durable;
5. Mainstream economic activity should enhance human health and wellbeing while building climate resilience and generalized prosperity;
6. International cooperation under Article 6.8 of the Paris Agreement should support alignment of all finance and trade with maximum global heating of 1.5ºC and a zero harm adaptation goal.

We consciously embrace the complexity of the climate challenge—because there is no other choice. Our best future is linked to climate-resilient development, and the climate system touches everything.

• We recognize that the three great global crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution, are interlinked. All forms of pollution degrade nature, and degraded nature is less able to anchor a stable climate or to adjust to rapid change.
• For this reason, we suggest a summit to seabed approach to ensuring the integrity of all ecosystems—including in forests, the ocean, mountains and the cryosphere—and protecting and sustaining biodiversity.
• Summit to seabed means investing upstream from impacts to avoid negative outcomes. For the cryosphere, for instance, that means rapidly eliminating global heating pollution; for the ocean, it means eliminating toxic runoff from agricultural and industrial activities.

We invite nonprofit organizations, foundations and knowledge producers, governments at all levels, and international financial institutions, as well as those commercial non-state actors aiming to lead the climate-smart transformation, to join the Climate Value Exchange. In 2024, we will be convening our first multilateral Climate Value events, as part of a wider effort to activate major climate action commitments on the way to Baku (COP29) and Belém (COP30).

Click the orange button below to express interest in joining.