CCI has released a statement at the end of the African Climate Summit today… SEPT. 7, 2023 — Citizens’ Climate International enthusiastically supports a call from the African Climate Summit for a global carbon taxation regime that could be part of the agenda at the COP28 climate conference in Dubai this fall. “In addition to…
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Citizens’ Climate International says… The heat is on. Let’s deal with the cause: Fossil fuels
With heat extremes removing all doubt about climate change, let’s deal with the cause: Fossil fuels By Steve Valk With record-shattering heat making headlines around the world, this is a good time to connect some dots to see what’s behind the weather extremes affecting people this summer and what needs to be done to keep…

The Met Office warns that the July of 2022 may become the new normal – let’s tell our MPs most people don’t want to backtrack……
The Met Office has confirmed that the temperatures of last year’s summer, if we keep to a predicted medium emission scenario (Met office modelling that assumes carbon emissions peak around 2045 and then fall) will be considered cool by 2060 and average by 2021, and Antonio Guterres warned later today that “the era of global…

What makes people support climate policy – especially CLIMATE INCOME ? Answer – a 5 minute video!
A recent report discussed research on attitudes towards climate change and solutions which included Climate Income. The research covered 40,000 respondents from 20 countries representing 72% of global CO2 emissions. The results show climate policy support hinges on three key beliefs: • effectiveness – does it work ?• inequality – is it fair ?• household…
I recently wrote this article about Climate Income for the John Ray Initiative Website. (their strapline is : Connecting Environment, Science & Christianity). I was asked to reproduce it here and I hope you all find it useful and inspiring! What if there was a single ‘silver bullet’ policy that would bring down emissions of…

Our chance to influence the G20 – Citizens’ Climate International asks G20 leaders to ‘Follow the Money’
G20-Leaders-Follow-the-Money (1)Citizens Climate International is asking G20 leaders to ‘’Follow the Money”…….’It is similar to the #G7 #SteerUsToSafety campaign where you all asked friends and family to send letters and secured 1194 letters from 80 countries. We know that German Chancellor Olaf Scholtz, the G7 was informed directly of all your work. Together across the…

The IMF says that the world needs to mitigate climate change now using a form of Climate Income, the cost of procrastination will only get higher…
A Guardian report on the 5th October examines the predictions of a chapter in the current IMF half yearly World Economic Outlook report. It has a chapter titled Near-Term Macroeconomic Impact of Decarbonization Policies. The chapter models the cost of delaying the tackling of climate change until ‘conditions are right’ and current global inflation has…

A long term solution to the cost of living crisis which will help save the earth not ‘cost the earth’.
The current solutions to the cost of living and energy crises are based on borrowing money from future taxpayers and doubling down on fossil fuels; despite the IEA and IPCC warnings that we need to keep fossil fuels in the ground to stand any chance of staying below a 1.5 degree global temperature rise. Francesco…
Carbon Pricing and the Cost of Living Crisis: A Major CCL-UK Report
Wouldn’t it be great if there was a policy that provided the finance needed to tackle the energy-bill crisis whilst, at the same time, tackling climate change? Well there is, and all it requires is a small change to a policy already implemented and already supported across the political spectrum—we should continue to provide government…

Canada becomes the first country to issue climate income cheques directly to citizens
When Canada’s climate income policy (Climate Action incentive Payment) was implemented in 2019 it became evident that householders did not equate the tax rebate with compensation for the rising price of fossil fuels. Political opponents could therefore argue that the policy was harming families, although despite this the policy has survived two elections. The government…