TOWARDS COP16 ON BIODIVERSITY: THE EUROPEAN SUMMIT ON NATURE AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR
The European Business & Biodiversity Summit was held in Milan. The purpose of the summit was to take stock of the COP16 on biodiversity to be held next year, at a location to be determined after Turkey withdrew its candidature and to understand how prepared the private sector is for the targets dictated by the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), the global biodiversity agreement adopted last year in Montreal during COP 15.
TICKET TO THE FUTURE, WHAT WAS IT? THE PROTAGONISTS’ TALE
With the SPARK consortium (the group of 20 European NGOs with whom we have been working for over three years now), a few months ago we met for the annual coordination meeting in Bologna, and it was on that occasion that the idea of bringing together young climate activists from all over Europe and beyond, also involving many young people from the countries of the Global South, was born.
That's when the Ticket To The Future activity was born, which has just ended, in which 140 people including staff from organisations and young people travelled by train to Barcelona, where the Fixing To The Future Festival was held.
CLIMATE AMBITION SUMMIT: FROM AN AMBITION SUMMIT TO A SUMMIT OF HOPE
Little ambition at the Climate Ambition Summit, except for Secretary General Guterres, developing countries and very few developed countries. Excluded from the event were the U.S., China and India, further evidence of the G20's lack of leadership. The message that emerges is that it is still possible to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, but the big issue remains the shift away from fossil fuels, which is still opposed by several countries.
SDG SUMMIT: A MISSED OPPORTUNITY FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
An insufficiently ambitious policy statement emerges from the SDG Summit, along with few new proposals. Positive signs: international consensus on the need to reform the international financial system and confidence in multilateralism. High ambition shown instead by civil society and other non-governmental stakeholders at the SDG Action Weekend.
HOW DOES THE LOSS AND DAMAGE FUND DIFFER FROM PREVIOUSLY ADOPTED TOOLS TO ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE
How do we understand how the international Loss and Damage Fund differs from other instruments already adopted in the past to address climate change? Why being informed is the first real action to counter it? Here is a summary of all the latest insights on the topic thanks to Alberto Giuffrè, SkyTg24 journalist.