Where do things stand on climate progress at #COP29? Join us Friday at 11 am EST for an update.

Learn more and RSVP here:
climatecivics.org/2024/11/19/c...

Got our first hit for CCI's op-ed — "Bring the Olympic spirit to the task of saving our world" — in the Daily News in Tanzania. Expecting more to come!

Text available here for easier reading:
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#ClimateChange #Olympics

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Wherever you are in the world, you can join the team that empowers citizens to engage their governments on #ClimateChange solutions. Register for one of our "Get to Know Us" calls happening next Wednesday to learn more.

Register: citizensclimate.earth/2024/02/26/c...

Happy #EarthDay, everyone! Our amazing volunteers in Africa have gotten our op-ed published today in several newspapers: What to give our planet and its people for Earth Day? Climate income is the perfect present.

#ClimateEmergency

We had a great turnout for the first webinar on Climate Income and Redirecting Financial Flows. Two more opportunities to join us later today and learn about the tools to speed the transition off fossil fuels!

Sign up here: citizensclimate.earth/2024/02/27/c...

Join us tomorrow for a special online workshop on the financial tools — including climate income — we can use to speed the transition away from fossil fuels. Register & choose a time that's convenient for you to attend.

Sign up here:
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Join us next week for a special online workshop about the financial tools — including climate income — that we can use to speed the transition away from fossil fuels. Register and choose a time that is convenient for you to attend.

Sign up here:
citizensclimate.earth/2024/02/27/c...

As carbon pricing comes under attack in Canada, hundreds of economists are coming to its defense. Their message:

Carbon pricing with revenue given to households is effective at reducing emissions and doesn't harm people or the economy.

Read their letter:
sites.google.com/view/open-le...

ICYMI: Listen to CCI's Joe Robertson — @joro.bsky.social —in this Climate Optimists podcast about UN climate negotiations and whether the COP process can make a difference in solving the climate crisis.

@climateoptimists.bsky.social
www.climateoptimists.co/episodes/un-...

Our Africa Coordinator, David Michael Terungwa, led a training in Nigeria for climate advocates this week and then they lobbied state officials today. The chairman of the Environment and Sanitation Committee told him, "If you help me draft the policy today, i will initiate the bill tomorrow."

Why in hell are we hearing about this atrocity in Oklahoma from a UK paper instead of a US paper? Meanwhile, the @nytimes.com has a story at the top of their home page about the death of a video game character.

WTF is wrong with American media?

Wait a minute! Aren't they making enough money on his trading cards to pay his legal bills?

UN chief warns climate chaos and food crises threaten global peace: ‘Empty bellies fuel unrest’

Climate change is leading to food insecurity that destabilizes nations.

Time to phase out fossil fuels that are heating up our world.

apnews.com/article/un-c...?

More signs that we need to change our relationship with nature: 1 in 5 UN-tracked migratory species at risk of extinction

Climate change and reckless development are driving species to extinction, which can lead to our extinction.

grist.org/internationa...?

One of the most feared consequences of #ClimateChange, the shut down of the Gulf Stream, is reaching a critical tipping point because of the melting of ice in Greenland. The phaseout of fossil fuels, at this point, is imperative.

theconversation.com/atlantic-oce...

Alarming news that the world has breached the 1.5C climate target over the past year, but as @shannonosaka.bsky.social points out, this does not necessarily mean we are doomed.

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