Category: Multilateral Cooperation
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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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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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How to mainstream climate action everywhere
What is non-market climate cooperation? It’s how groups of countries can make climate value central to their dealings, with benefits across the whole economy. In 1992, nearly 200 nations agreed to work together to “prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system”. We are now living with increasingly dangerous and costly impacts of human-caused climate…
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Trade can deliver a climate-smart future
It is the unwritten background insight underlying all international climate policy debate and negotiation that success will mean all trade is climate-smart, along with the everyday economy, everywhere. Trade is the word we use to describe the economic, financial, and commercial relationships of exchange between nations, but we all participate in trade. Trade determines what…
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The cooperative finance revolution is starting
Climate, health, nature, food, and inequality are converging in a global polycrisis; the Paris Summit aims to start a cooperative financing revolution, to avoid ecological collapse and secure a livable future. Unsustainable practices eventually hit a wall, by undermining the foundations for sustained productive activity. Global heating pollution, nature loss, poverty and inequality, and the ramifications of the…
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