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Young people and the climate crisis: partecipation opportunities in the crucial year for climate action

By Giulia Persico, School Project Coordinator The generation that will suffer the greatest consequences of the climate crisis, the last able to win it. Young people are in a critical position with respect to climate change: they are the ones who will have to live more with its effects, but...

50 countries to meet in Milan ahead of COP26

There has been a great deal of communication confusion about the two international climate events that will precede COP26. Milan, Italy, will host both the “Youth4climate” initiative – with almost 400 young climate activists from all over the world as protagonists – and, subsequently, from Thursday 30 September to Saturday...

Climate: no step forward after three weeks of online negotiation

by Jacopo Bencini, Policy Advisor, ICN UNFCCC contact point On the morning of Thursday 17 June, the first online intersessionals (the annual intermediate climate negotiations under the UNFCCC) came to an end. Delegates from nearly two hundred countries adhering to the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC) had...

Those 100 billion a year nobody has ever seen

by Jacopo Bencini, Policy Advisor, ICN UNFCCC contact point The second week of intermediate climate negotiations closes after a series of long night sessions (for us Italians) characterized, in many cases, by a repetition of well-known positions on most agenda items, with a few significant steps forward. In particular, the...

With Week 2 approaching, deadlock on ambition must be broken

By Jacopo Bencini, ICN Policy Advisor This article is part of ICN’s weekly report from the SB2021 meetings (UNFCCC SB52) The first week of June 2021 has seen the comeback of climate negotiations, after a one-and-a-half-year break. These Subsidiary Bodies negotiations are unconventional: they’re held entirely online and will last...

The (online) return of climate diplomacy

By Jacopo Bencini, ICN Policy Advisor On the 31st of May, after a year and a half of delay due to the pandemic, the climate change negotiations are back in a digital format: the traditional intermediate negotiations which normally would take place in Bonn (Germany) will be carried out completely...

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