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International Roundtable on Sustainability 2018
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Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana (CNMI) in partnership with Swarovski will be holding the 2nd International Roundtable on Sustainability, an event designed for international luxury brand CSR managers. The initiative is one of several organized by the Sustainability Committee and the Sustainability Work Group co-ordinated by CNMI to provide a forum for discussion and training on sustainability issues in the luxury fashion industry.
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Climate science advances climate action – celebrating 30 years of the IPCC at All4TheGreen event
The All4TheGreen – Mobilizing Climate Science event in Bologna, February 26th, marked the IPCC’s 30th anniversary of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) with the Chair, Hoesung Lee, emphasizing the Panel’s relevance:
"2018 promises to be one of the most important years on the IPCC history. The IPCC report on the impacts of 1.5C of global warming will be the major scientific input for the climate discussion."
The IPCC has been instrumental in advancing climate action by presenting the scientific evidence on climate change. To celebrate such a rich history and discuss the role of science for climate action the All4TheGreen – Mobilizing Climate Science series of events was organized by the Connect4Climate program of the World Bank Group and the Italian Ministry for Environment, Land and Sea.
Hoesung Lee, Chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Photo Credit: Connect4Climate
At the oldest university in Europe, Hoesung Lee revealed that the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report will differ from the previous assessments by propounding a “scientifically robust and clear link between climate action and economic development.” While the Sixth Assessment study is not due for publication until 2019 much of the discussion on the day focused on achieving the targets of the Paris Climate Change Agreement, to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius, and the interlinkage between climate action and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
Gian Luca Galletti, Italian Minister of Environment, Land and Sea. Photo Credit: Connect4Climate
To a capacity audience of students, academics, thought-leaders, government, civil society and business representatives, Italian Minister of Environment, Land and Sea, Gian Luca Galletti, highlighted the All4TheGreen message:
"The environment is the center of the dialogue. Either we save it or we lose everything.”
Ibrahim Thiaw, deputy executive director of UNEP and assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, emphasized that “as climate change continues to galvanize it threatens the most fundamental human rights,” thereby linking climate impacts to exacerbating poverty and enhancing climate-induced migration. “Climate change is putting pressure on the resources, and creating conflicts,” he elaborated, encouraging global leaders act: “World leaders can make life-changing decisions and those will be remembered.”
Discussants painted a clear picture, that climate impacts are being felt more often and are increasing in severity, and that more needs to be done to transition to a low-carbon resilient future. Public awareness of climate science and the need to act to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and build resilient societies was presented as a necessary pre-requisite for global leaders to enhance their climate commitments. According to the speakers there is an urgent need to immediately reduce carbon emissions, change the way we produce food and use it, educate for climate solutions, create technology for carbon disposal, protect the oceans from plastics and other waste, and enhance environmental services to build a green future.
Climate action is urgent. “There is no time to waste” emphasized Deo Saran, Fiji Ambassador and Special Envoy to the UNFCCC, who also emphasized the need for unity as symbolized by the slogan of COP23: Uniting for Climate Action – Further Faster Together. To address climate change, immediate collaborative action between governments, businesses, cities, academia and civil society is needed to achieve the Paris Agreement goals.
“Yes, we can. We can achieve the Paris Agreement target of 1.5 degrees Celsius,” noted Myles Allen, professor of the University of Oxford, but it will take a huge accelerated global effort and will also require carbon-uptake solutions to be deployed at scale. “The fossil fuel industry is a tenth of the global economy. If they had to, they could solve the climate problem. Instead they’re privatizing profit and socializing risk,” Allen emphasized.
A group of young people stressed the need to take on climate change. Photo Credit: Connect4Climate
To close the day’s discussions a diverse group of young people mainly from developing countries took the stage with a message for sustainable peace: “For me there is nothing scarier than scientific data. How do we combat climate everywhere?” one young person emphasized in an emotionally-laden speech:
"We need to unite to address climate change and make sure those affected do not pay the bill. Pure reports will not be enough."
In closing Abdullah Mokssit, from IPCC, advised, “let's transform climate change into climate opportunity,” a recommendation supported by Giulia Braga, Connect4Climate program manager, who believes that “climate change is an issue but also an opportunity for present and future generations.”
Giulia Braga, Connect4Climate program manager. Photo Credit: Connect4Climate
All4theGreen – Mobilizing Climate Science concluded with a live concert of world-famous piano improviser Danilo Rea and artist Alex Braga to showcase how artificial intelligence can also be key to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. “Technology is the only way to get us where we cannot get alone", Alex Braga noted, before transforming the stage into a visual and musical show that unscored the emotionally-laden day and reverberated the message the we all need to be for the green, to build a low-carbon and resilient future. Climate science is at the heart of all climate action. Thank you and happy birthday to the IPCC.
Artistic Performance “Cracking Danilo Rea” - Full Concert
Film4Climate announces partnership with the Cineteca of Bologna - Film director Fernando Solanas presents “Viaje a Los Pueblos Fumigados”
In the lead up to the discussions on February 26th, the Cinema Lumière opened its doors on February 24th to the Argentinian filmmaker Fernando Solanas, who traveled to Bologna to present his new documentary “Viaje a Los Pueblos Fumigados” (A Journey to the Fumigated Towns), a portrait showcasing the consequences of genetically modified food.
"This movie shows that climate change does not respect ideology or color”, recalled Fernando Solanas in a filled room where he discussed the messages of the documentary, the consequences of climate change in Argentina and his work as a film director.
Director Fernando Solanas. Photo Credit: Paula Alves Silva / Connect4Climate
The screening of “Viaje a Los Pueblos Fumigados” was the result of a partnership with the Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna as part of Connect4Climate’s Film4Climate initiative. The partnership intends to create a program of climate and environmental-related movies to be screened in Bologna during the internationally acclaimed "Sotto le Stelle del Cinema" program in beautiful Piazza Maggiore.
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Voices for a Brighter Future Competition: Calling all journalists from the least developed countries
The United Nations Office of the High Representative for Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS) is looking for inspiring stories on how sustainable energy positively impacts communities and individuals in the world’s Least Developed Countries.
Three winners of the ‘Voices of A Brighter Future’ competition will have their work featured by the United Nations and other news outlets, with travel and expenses covered to report from the Sustainable Energy for All Forum in Lisbon, Portugal 2-3 May 2018.
Photo Credit: Kaia Rose / Connect4Climate
Entries will be judged by a high-level panel from the United Nations, sustainable energy, and the media sector. Submissions must have been published or broadcast between 16 August 2017 and 16 March 2018. Please read the guidelines for submissions in full.
Please note this competition is only open for journalists who are nationals from Least Developed Countries. A full list of these countries is available here.
This competition has been made possible with the generous financial support of the Government of Norway.
Take a look at the Terms and Conditions of the competition
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World’s First International Research Conference on Carbon Pricing Set for January 2019
The Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition (CPLC), an initiative that brings together leaders from government, business, and civil society to drive carbon pricing action around the world, has just announced the launch of the first CPLC Research Conference on carbon pricing to take place in late January 2019.
Abstracts of 150 words are due by April 15th, 2018, and should be submitted using the form on this website.
Over the past several years, the world has seen a proliferation of carbon pricing schemes and an increase in the diversity of approaches. Research has underpinned much of this progress and helped increase the understanding of carbon pricing design. Despite this growing body of experience and data, new research and analysis are needed to support effective carbon pricing design and execution.
The CPLC will convene researchers, policymakers, and practitioners at this international research conference to strengthen the knowledge base on carbon pricing and foster an improved understanding of the evolving challenges to its successful application.
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Leveraging its high-level members of governments, the private sector, and civil society organizations, the Coalition will draw on outcomes of this conference to help bridge the existing gap between theory and practice and to inform future decisions taken by policymakers and corporate leaders.
We want to have a real, evidence-based conversation between practitioners, academia, policymakers, business leaders, and other sectors of society to provide answers to the difficult questions that all of them are asking around carbon pricing.
Andrei Marcu, Co-Chair of the conference and its scientific committee, and Senior Fellow International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) and Director of the European Roundtable on Climate Change and Sustainable Transition.
We are looking to hear about interesting projects and outputs from across a wide spectrum of disciplines going beyond the usual fields already working on carbon pricing. For example, we would like to hear from researchers on corporate strategy or others working on the relevance of carbon pricing for business and the financial sector. We are particularly interested in a strong turnout from developing countries as well as from a younger generation of researchers and practitioners.
Michael Mehling, Co-Chair of the conference and its scientific committee, and Deputy Director, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Relevant research themes include, but are not limited to, the following:
Learning from past and current experience: Case studies on carbon pricing design and implementation, performance review, and evaluation, comparing carbon pricing systems and their effects, understanding actors and affected markets, results of modeling to assess/analyzeenvironmental, macroeconomic, and distributional outcomes of different approaches, etc.; The political economy of carbon pricing: Political acceptance and feasibility of carbon pricing, use of carbon pricing revenue, distributional effects of carbon pricing, dealing with adverse impacts of carbon pricing, etc.;
The political economy of carbon pricing: Political acceptance and feasibility of carbon pricing, use of carbon pricing revenue, distributional effects of carbon pricing, dealing with adverse impacts of carbon pricing, etc.; Carbon pricing and development: Financing sustainable development with carbon pricing, fiscal aspects of carbon pricing, co-benefits of carbon pricing (indirect effects on pollution, employment implications, economic diversification), pathways to a just transition, etc.;
Carbon pricing and development: Financing sustainable development with carbon pricing, fiscal aspects of carbon pricing, co-benefits of carbon pricing (indirect effects on pollution, employment implications, economic diversification), pathways to a just transition, etc.; Carbon pricing and competitiveness: Understanding impacts of carbon pricing on competitiveness, effects, and limitations of policy options to address leakage and competitiveness concerns (free allocation, tax exemptions, alternative approaches), etc.;
Carbon pricing and competitiveness: Understanding impacts of carbon pricing on competitiveness, effects, and limitations of policy options to address leakage and competitiveness concerns (free allocation, tax exemptions, alternative approaches), etc.; Role of carbon pricing in decarbonization: Complementary policies and policy interactions, hybrid approaches to carbon pricing, dynamic effects and climate policy ambition, role of carbon pricing in innovation and energy transition, internal carbon pricing, etc.;
Role of carbon pricing in decarbonization: Complementary policies and policy interactions, hybrid approaches to carbon pricing, dynamic effects and climate policy ambition, role of carbon pricing in innovation and energy transition, internal carbon pricing, etc.; Emerging frontiers of carbon pricing: Linkage and convergence of carbon pricing systems, policy transfer, and diffusion across jurisdictions, extending carbon pricing to new sectors (aviation, shipping, agriculture and forestry), carbon pricing under the Paris Agreement (e.g. operationalization of Art. 6 and NDC (Partnership) support), etc.
Emerging frontiers of carbon pricing: Linkage and convergence of carbon pricing systems, policy transfer, and diffusion across jurisdictions, extending carbon pricing to new sectors (aviation, shipping, agriculture and forestry), carbon pricing under the Paris Agreement (e.g. operationalization of Art. 6 and NDC (Partnership) support), etc.All submissions will undergo review and selection by a Scientific Committee, with eminent representatives of academia, government, and the private sector.
Selection decisions will be communicated by May 31st, 2018, and full papers for conference presentation will be due by October 31st, 2018.
Conference proceedings will be published in an edited volume and/or a high-impact, peer-reviewed journal.
The CPLC Research Conference Scientific Committee is composed of:
Co-Chairs:
Andrei Marcu, Senior Fellow, ICTSD Michael Mehling, Deputy Director CEEPR, MIT Scientific Committee:
William Acworth, Project Manager, ICAP Susanne Åkerfeldt, Senior Legal Adviser, Swedish Ministry of Finance Ottmar Edenhofer, Deputy Director and Chief Economist, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Arnibhan Ghosh, Chief Sustainability Officer, Mahindra Sharlin Hemraj, Senior Economist, National Treasury, South Africa Rachael Jonassen, Director - Greenhouse Gas Management Program, George Washington University Emilio Lebre la Rovere, Professor, Energy Planning Program, Federal Univesity of Rio Duan Maosheng, Professor and Director China Carbon Market Center, Tshingua University, China Andrei Marcu, Senior Fellow, ICTSD Michael Mehling, Deputy Director CEEPR, MIT Adele Morris, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies | Policy Director - Climate and Energy Economics Project, The Brookings Institute Gzregorz Peszko, Lead Economist, World Bank Mandy Rambharos, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Manager, ESKOM Youba Sokona, Special Advisor, The South Center Rob Stavins, Professor, Energy and Economic Development, Harvard Kennedy School|
2018 Momentum for Change Awards: Call for Applications
The United Nations Climate Change secretariat has opened the call for applications for its 2018 Momentum for Change Awards to showcase global climate action and ambition, as national governments work toward implementing the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals.
Applications are being accepted from 22 February until 30 April 2018. Individuals, organizations, communities, schools, cities, businesses, industries, governments and others that are taking concrete action on climate change can apply to have their projects recognized here.
Initiatives that are selected for the Momentum for Change Awards are called ‘Lighthouse Activities.’ They are the most innovative, scalable, and replicable examples of what people are doing to address climate change, in the hope of inspiring others to act. Winning activities will be recognized and celebrated during a series of special events at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 24) in Katowice, Poland, taking place in December.
Momentum for Change is looking for climate action projects that are already achieving real results in the following four categories:
1. Women for Results: recognizing the critical leadership and participation of women in addressing climate change, implemented in collaboration with Masdar’s WiSER initiative. 2. Financing for Climate Friendly Investment: recognizing successful financial innovations for adaptation and climate mitigation, implemented in partnership with the World Economic Forum Global Project on Climate Change. 3. Planetary Health: recognizing novel solutions that balance the need for both human health and a healthy planet, implemented with support by The Rockefeller Foundation. 4. Climate Neutral Now: recognizing efforts by individuals, companies, and governments that are achieving real results in transitioning to climate neutrality, implemented with the secretariat’s Climate Neutral Now initiative.For more details and to apply, please click here.
To mark 30 years of mobilizing climate science, to celebrate the IPCC achievement and debate what needs to be done going forward, a series of events under the All4TheGreen umbrella and organized by Connect4Climate, will be presented in Bologna at the oldest university in Europe, on Monday, February 26th, with internationally renowned scienti
All4TheGreen - Mobilizing Climate Science: Full Program & Biographies
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To mark 30 years of mobilizing climate science, to celebrate the IPCC achievement and debate what needs to be done going forward, a series of events under the All4TheGreen umbrella and organized by Connect4Climate, will be presented in Bologna at the oldest university in Europe, on Monday, February 26th, with internationally renowned scientis
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