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PRE-COP31 IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS: A ‘SACRIFICE ZONE’ BETWEEN POLICIES, POLITICS AND EXPECTATIONS

Between climate ambition, Indigenous traditions in the Pacific and science, Pre-COP31 in Fiji and Tuvalu is expected to be a multilateral forum marked by absences and international tensions, but also by ambitious goals and high expectations among Pacific communities. What is a Pre-COP, and why is the one in the...

FROM THE ADVISORY OPINION TO THE UN RESOLUTION: WHAT CHANGES AFTER MAY 20?

On 20 May 2026, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution A/80/L.65 with 141 votes in favour, effectively endorsing and operationalising Advisory Opinion No. 187/25 of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on States’ obligations in the context of climate change. Far from being a symbolic gesture, the resolution translates...

IF THE EARTH BURNS, SECURITY TREMBLES

Climate change does not create wars on its own, but it demolishes the rural economy and social cohesion, opening the way for criminal and extremist infiltration where the State is absent. Crop failures and altered transhumance routes trigger clashes over water and land. These local, close-proximity tensions become the ideal...

JUNE CLIMATE MEETINGS IN BONN: ITALIAN CLIMATE NETWORK ANALYSIS

On the evening of Thursday, June 18, the Bonn June Climate Meetings (SB64) officially concluded. This was a key appointment to lay the groundwork ahead of COP31 on climate, scheduled for November in Turkey. Until a few years ago, the June Climate Meetings were predominantly technical in nature, a factor...

EXPECTATIONS FOR COP31

Ahead of the closing of the June Climate Meetings, consultations on the vision and priorities for COP31 held on Tuesday in Bonn confirmed that the Antalya appointment will represent a decisive moment to transition to the concrete implementation of the Paris Agreement. Several points on the COP31 agenda were reiterated...

IN BONN, MULTILATERALISM IS ALIVE BUT STALLED

The first week of negotiations at SB64 – the critical mid-year session ahead of the next COP – has drawn to a close. But what is the actual atmosphere inside the conference halls? Between technical roundtables transforming into political clashes and the climate urgency struggling to find space in the...

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