Issues

Connecting Global to Local has chosen to focus on three global issues with a local impact: climate change, avian flu, and nuclear material and weapons. While these are only three global issues requiring local solutions, they are important ones. Find out more about these issues and how they affect your community. And start thinking about other global issues, their local impacts, and how engaged citizens can create solutions.

• Climate Change With the help of the Urban Environmental Accords, climate change can be combated.
• Avian Flu A public health threat could affect us all. But preparedness can begin locally.
• Nuclear Material and Weapons Nuclear material is both a danger and a resource for our communities. Find out more.

Other Citizens for Global Solutions initiatives include:

• U.S. Global Engagement We advocate for a foreign policy that makes us stronger and safer through teamwork, cooperation, and effective global institutions.
• Peace and SecurityWe support collaborative approaches to prevent and resolve conflicts and establish effective peace operations through tools such as an empowered, efficient and accountable UN peacekeeping capacity in post-conflict regions around the world.
• International Law and Justice We promote strengthening the laws and institutions that protect human rights and help nations resolve disputes peacefully including U.S. cooperation with the International Criminal Court.
• International Institutions We propose reforms to make international decision-making more effective, transparent, accountable, and democratic. We seek practical reforms to improve the United Nations and strengthen the WHO, IAEA and other international organziations.
• Health and Environment We support global cooperative efforts to confront environmental and public health challenges. We want to see the U.S. resume its leadership role in protecting the global environment and preventing global health threats.