Asking for a climate income to tackle climate change.
On the 22nd September the United Nations General Assembly adopted the “Pact for the Future” which, reports Reuters, UN secretary-general António Guterres describes as a landmark agreement that is a “step-change towards more effective, inclusive, networked multilateralism”…… UN News reports that….. ‘The Pact’s five broad focus areas include: sustainable development; international peace and security; science…
Today the Times reported that “The floods that devastated Brechin were not predicted to hit for another 60 years, according to climate change modelling by Scotland’s environmental watchdog”. The 2021 Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (Sepa) flood risk plan had estimated that about 440 homes and businesses in Brechin would be liable to flooding by the…
SEPT. 1, 2023 — In light of a recently released UN letter alluding to human rights violations by oil giant Saudi Aramco, Citizens’ Climate International is calling on all fossil fuel companies to immediately develop future business strategies that reduce rather than increase the manufacture of climate-altering fuels. (Shell and BP have also reined back…
Citizens’ Climate International, the umbrella group to which we are affiliated, has this year been involved in an action to support the transformation of the World Bank Group needed for the 21st century. There is a growing awareness and acceptance by the World Bank Group that a transformation is needed to move the whole world…
Despite the General Assembly being preoccupied with the war in Ukraine there was a groundbreaking moment when Vanuatu became the first nation state to sign the Fossil Fuel Non Proliferation Treaty. Press Release from the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Organisation. NEW YORK CITY – 23 September 2022 Today, Vanuatu called on other nations to join…
Worldwide adverse weather events this summer have reinforced the moral imperative of Loss and Damage funding, in particular the damage caused by flooding in Pakistan, a nation which contributes less than 1% of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions. Last year there were several papers which argued for the solution of a global Climate Income policy to…
