Over 500 Climate Advocates From 49 Countries Urge G7 Leaders to Steer Us to Safety Letter calls on G7 leaders to rapidly redirect financial flows, adopt a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty & finance climate resilient development Every day, we are feeling and witnessing the effects of climate change—drought, wildfire, floods, extreme heat, hurricanes, sea-level rise,…
Citizens’ Climate International is asking us all to sign a letter petition to the G7 to ask that the call for just and effective global carbon pricing be heeded. Please add your voice to this call, it may be the most important petition you ever get the chance to sign! Group of 7 Summit meetings…
The commitments of COP26 seem to have been forgotten in the rush to approve new oil and gas fields, ostensibly justified by the need for energy security. On June 1st the Fossil Fuel Non Proliferation Treaty organisation (FFNPT) published the report Fuelling Failure, How oil, gas and coal are driving climate change and sabotaging the…
The G7 is considering beginning negotiations on a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) at its meeting in June. Liz Truss had appeared keen on promoting CBAM at the G7 last year but the idea seemed to have been put on the back burner and the Board of Trade Report in July , (21/7/21) promoted a…
The executive summary of the World Meteorological Organization Global Annual to Decadal Climate Update makes for sobering reading: WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION Global Annual to Decadal Climate Update Target years: 2022 and 2022-2026 Executive Summary The Global Annual to Decadal Climate Update is issued annually by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). It provides a synthesis of…
UBI Center is a think tank whose mission is “To make universal basic income the world’s most thoroughly researched economic policy“. They have just published (23rd April) a blog discussing their analysis of carbon pricing with dividends in the UK and the results won’t surprise anyone in CCL. They start by pointing out that the…
Statement from Joe Robertson, Executive Director, Citizens Climate International, reflecting on Earth Day 2022. This moment is different. What we do now will determine how billions of people live, and how safe they are, decades from now. We are living through a crucial moment on which human history and the health of planetary systems will…
Fuel Poverty Action campaigns against the shocking levels of fuel poverty in the UK (the highest in Western Europe) and the energy industry policies and failure to adequately improve housing stock which exacerbate fuel poverty. Its latest campaign, #EnergyForAll was reported on by Polly Toynbee in the Guardian on the 21st April. This is the…
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the body of scientists tasked with reporting to the UNFCCC (that’s the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) every 5 or 6 years. There are three working groups within the IPCC that work on: The science of climate change. What’s happened to the climate and what…
Last October we submitted a CCL response to a consultation on Carbon Border Adjustments instigated by the House of Commons’ Environmental Audit Committee. They received 27 such submissions from organisations from the TUC to the WWF and even HM Treasury. The resulting report was released today and, I’m glad to say, it has many excellent…
