Joseph Robertson

Joseph Robertson
Founder

Joseph serves as Executive Director of Climate Civics International and Chief Strategist for the Climate Value Exchange. He is a core partner in the Good Food Finance Network and Climate Action and Food Systems Alliance.

He previously served as Interim Director for the Food System Economics Commission during its start-up phase and then Senior Advisor, Sustainable Finance for the EAT Foundation, supporting conceptual development of a Co-Investment Platform for Food Systems Transformation and the Integrated Data Systems Initiative. He also led the Impact Investors Living Lab for the EU-sponsored Food Trails Initaitive, which produced a Roadmap for Scaling Impact Investment in Urban Food Systems.

From 2015 to 2019, Joseph co-convened a series of Acceleration Dialogues with the International Center for Dialogue and Peacebuilding. After those dialogues produced important insights about the need for innovative finance that supports macrocritical resilience, Joseph created and launched the Resilience Intelinitiative in collaboration with Morocco’s COP22 Presidency team and other partners. Resilience Intel produced The Path to 100% Climate-Smart Finance and the Whole-Earth Active Value Economy (WEAVE) knowledge network graph, which when COVID-disrupted economies and supply chains showed evidence of how some entities were less prepared to adapt to major shock events.

From 2014 to 2016, he was a member of the Policy and Strategy Group for the World We Want, which was convened and coordinated by the United Nations Development Programme. As a civil society representative in the PSG, he helped to bring stakeholder insights into the process that shaped the Sustainable Development Goals and suggested pathways for implementation and awareness-raising.

Joseph is a member of the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition Advisory Group, founder of Geoversiv, and a core contributor to the Earth Intelligence podcast—anchored by multiple award-winning Twin Cities broadcast journalist Don Shelby and featuring the internationally recognized sustainability and civic engagement leader Myra Jackson.

Joseph is the creator of Liberate Systemsand author of the 2010 report Building a Green Economy, which found economically efficient carbon pricing would create jobs, raise incomes, and support technological innovation. His translations into Spanish of Earth Policy Institute Eco-Economics and Plan B Updates, from 2000 to 2013, are online at Futurismo Verde.