Climate Advocacy Multipliers: Climate Action Guide and Citizens’ Climate International
In this blog entry, I focus on two examples of national and international climate advocacy multipliers:
2) Citizens’ Climate International
The first climate advocacy multiplier is Climate Action Guide. A few weeks ago, through my volunteer work as a Co-Leader of Citizens’ Climate Lobby, Blue Hill — Hancock County, Maine Chapter, I had the pleasure of meeting Matt Tucker, who is covering for me as I take a couple of months for some other urgent leadership projects. Matt and I spoke a couple of weeks ago, and I discovered his Climate Action Guide. This amazing resource catalogs dozens of climate action organizations and facilitates quick and efficient volunteering and donating.
The second climate advocacy multiplier is Citizens’ Climate International, directed by Joe Robertson as a sister organization to Citizens’ Climate Lobby and Citizens’ Climate Education.
This remarkable set of citizens’ climate organizations has over 200,000 volunteers and 500 chapters globally. In June of 2024, I participated along with over 1,000 Citizens’ Climate Lobby volunteer colleagues in lobbying the vast majority of Congress regarding the Prove It Act (S. 1863) and clean energy permitting after a National Conference in Washington, D.C. The results were demonstrable as have been CCL’s accomplishments since its founding in 2007.
The reader can Get to Know Citizens’ Climate International on September 18, 2024 at 8am or 2pm Eastern U.S. time.
Additionally, with the generous help of Blue Hill - Hancock County Citizens’ Climate Lobby Chapter leaders, ELA Nonprofit Consulting sent six Bolivians (including me) to CCL’s National Conference and Lobbying Day from June 8th through June 11th 2024. (Next year the conference and lobbying day will be July 19th through 22nd).
As a new volunteer for Citizen's’ Climate Lobby, I had not been aware of other international presence at the June national conference. However, legislators and climate advisors from Nigeria and Ghana were present and engaged in Interparlimentary Exchange on Climate Value Incentives and Implementation The Interparlimentary Exchange is due to expand to at least 10 country participation in 2025 with additional programming, and it is my hope that Bolivia will be able to be represented, if not next year, then in 2026.
Quoting Citizens’ Climate International, “Climate Value is a measure of the practical benefits of reducing risk, building resilience, and establishing sustainable everyday practices and the institutions to support them. Measuring Climate Value will be critical for achieving successful climate-resilient development—for affluent and vulnerable countries and communities.” Citizens’ Climate International invites peers, and relevant stakeholders, to join this effort, and to support the work of advancing the Climate Value economy as the best hope we have for a peaceful, prosperous, and sustainable future.
I was also particularly impressed with a Citizens’ Climate International’s Civic Diplomacy Program climate diplomacy training, which was held in the Spring of 2024 in conjunction with Tuft’s University’s renowed Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy.
You can join Citizens’ Climate organizations here for free and without a specific time obligation. Your talents and interests can be leveraged as you wish.
