Ask any disaster survivor when the real decisions get made, and many will tell you it is not before the storm. Learn more now.
CDI's Natalie Montecino on why rural climate engagement often fails communities—and how proactive Community Visioning builds lasting local trust.
From The Hill: Today, we know that we do influence the weather and can do something about it. The decisions we each make every day, particularly how we use energy, influence it.
Ask any disaster survivor when the real decisions get made, and many will tell you it is not before the storm. Learn more now.
CDI's Natalie Montecino on why rural climate engagement often fails communities—and how proactive Community Visioning builds lasting local trust.
Ask any disaster survivor when the real decisions get made, and many will tell you it is not before the storm. Learn more now.
CDI's Natalie Montecino on why rural climate engagement often fails communities—and how proactive Community Visioning builds lasting local trust.
From The Hill: Today, we know that we do influence the weather and can do something about it. The decisions we each make every day, particularly how we use energy, influence it.
New initiative centers small-town and rural leaders to proactively shape disaster recovery, hazard mitigation, and long-term community resilience.
For CDI, our first year at Skoll was both a milestone and an invitation: a chance to share what we are learning from communities at home, while listening to others who are asking similar questions around the world.
At the Climate Democracy Initiative, 2025 was a year of building foundations—not just programs, but the trust, relationships, and local leadership capacity that make lasting climate progress possible.
Natalie Montecino, Executive Director of the Climate Democracy Initiative, has been selected as a Non-Resident Fellow at the Cornell Center on Global Democracy.
As a Fulbrighter, Natalie explored development, sustainability practices, and local community engagement in rural Japan.
We are living in the age of broken inheritances. The systems we have received—political, economic, ecological—were not built for the world now unfolding.
Climate Democracy Initiative (CDI) will join global leaders, innovators, and changemakers at the Skoll World Forum. Let’s come together to accelerate innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing problems.
