One of the central themes of this year's Interim Negotiations sessions, which have just opened in Bonn, is Global Stocktake (GST). On the first day, so besides the opening plenary, most of the events focused on it. The GST is the review mechanism under Art. 14 of the Paris Agreement that aims to assess every five years the progress made and how much more there is to be done to achieve the ultimate goals of the agreement.
For some years now, those of us who follow international climate policy has been equipped to closely follow the work of the G7 and G20, forums that help to guess the direction of the next COP, according to the now customary G7-G20-COP calendar, with increasing degrees of involvement of the world's different governments.
Climate change also has very different impacts on people's lives depending on the latitude in which they live. Several hundred thousand people are forced to move temporarily or permanently because their usual places of residence are no longer liveable.
The Board of Directors of the Italian Climate Network was renewed after three years in office and, at its first meeting after the election, Serena Giacomin was reconfirmed as President of the association.
The conference event on the future of the concept of development, 'Beyond Growth', was held at the European Parliament in Brussels and organised by the main European political groups: Greens (Greens/EFA), Left (The Left), Socialists, Democrats, Progressives (S&D), Popular and Christian Democrats (EPP), Liberals (Renew), ended in the late afternoon of 17 May. The conference aimed to give a new centrality to the topic of development limits at the continental level, hopefully, given a future 'European Green and Social Pact'. Italian Climate Network participated in the three-day conference.
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