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Joseph Robertson
Joseph is Global Strategy Director for the non-partisan non-profit Citizens' Climate Education. He is the lead strategist supporting the Acceleration Dialogues (diplomatic climate-solutions roundtables) and Resilience Intel—an effort to move the world to 100% climate-smart finance. Joseph represents CCL in the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition, the UNFCCC negotiations, and other UN processes, and is founder of Geoversiv. His articles appear from time to time in the Guardian. Since April 2020, he also serves as Commission Director for the Food System Economics Commission.
With Biosphere at Risk, EU Announces Record Green Bond Issue
The biosphere—the space for life—is being destabilized in shocking ways, at a speed never seen in Earth’s history. The 5th […]
Food System Economics Commission—Why now?
Dear Friends, I recently took on the role of Commission Director for the Food System Economics Commission—an independent, interdisciplinary academic […]
Macrocritical Resilience is the fast track to shared prosperity
We are entering a new age for the Earth’s climate and for the way we conceive of finance. “Macrocritical resilience” […]
Central Banks’ Climate Resilience will Affect You Personally
We are living through historic—and perilous—separation of high finance from everyday experience. Accelerating climate disruption is a symptom of the […]
Shift Incentives to Transform the Food System
REPORT FROM DAVOS The World Economic Forum has identified all 5 of the leading global risks as related to climate […]
2020 Vision: Deciding to Be Free
How much do we value human freedom? For thousands of years people of all variety of experience and influence have […]
UK is Stress-Testing Banks for Climate Risk; All Nations Should
A week before Christmas, the Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, wrote in the Financial Times that the […]
Value of Ice – COP25 event
As a contribution to Mountain Glaciers and Snow Day at the COP25 Cryosphere Pavilion, Citizens’ Climate is joining ICCI to […]
COP25 Mandate: The Geopolitics of Mutual Empowerment
COP25 Strategy Brief from Citizens’ Climate Education, the Engage4Climate Network and Resilience Intel The time between the COP25 (opening today […]
Funding Commitments for Climate Action Jump 54% in One Year
Writing for Bloomberg News, Naureen Malik has cited Resilience Intel’s climate-smart finance aggregation work, noting: The money being committed to […]
Cooperative Finance to Avoid Stranded Asset Risk
Cooperative finance strategies can optimize innovation timelines and help all stakeholders eliminate stranded asset liability cost and risk. A “stranded […]
