On 10th of January, ahead of the Davos business Forum,
Greta Thunberg and other FFF leaders sent a message through the Guardian
We are in an emergency and we, business, investors and policymakers have to act accordantly!
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World Economic Forum (WEF)
21-24 January, 2020, the World Economic Forum (WEF), in Davos, a Swiss ski resort, held its 50th annual meeting. Davos is a meeting of world leaders and chief execs of big business, who gather each year on issues facing business and the global economy. “How to save the planet” was one of the themes this year. Greta Thunberg was the key speaker for a session on Averting a climate apocalypse.
The Global Climate March
On 6 of December there was The Global Climate March taking place in most major cities around the world. In Madrid, 500.000 people had gathered from many continents and countries to demand urgent action to halt climate change. Greta Thunberg held another powerful speech, reflecting on the COP 25 negotiations that were to take place in Madrid during the following 2 weeks.
Cumbre Social por el Clima 2019
On 6 to 13 December, parallel to the official COP25, civil society organizations in Madrid organized the Social Climate Summit, SCS, (Cumbre Social por el Clima), together with their Chilean counterpart; Sociedad Civil de Acción Climática, SCAC. In 3 weeks the summit as such, and a huge, ambitious program with 350 presentations and activities were developed.
The Social Summit had a broad; 300 organizations, networks, groups and social movements from most continents, gathered at the SCS.
Escazú Agreement
At the Social Summit, 6 to 13 December in Madrid, there were several meetings to inform and mobilize around the ratification and implementation of the Escazú Agreement. The Escazú Agreement is the first environmental human rights treaty in Latin America and the Caribbean.
It develops Principle 10 of the 1992 Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, which seeks to ensure access to information, citizen participation and access to justice in environmental matters and provides special protections for environmental human rights defenders. After six years of negotiations, it was approved in March 2018.
Low-Emissions Solutions Conference
9 – 10 December at Madrid Polytechnic University, UPM, Industrial Engineering.
Low-Emissions Solutions Conference: Systems Transformation for a 1.5 Degree World. WBCSD, ICLEI and SDSN organized this conference together with the UPM.
The conference presented the SDSN/FEEM report: Roadmap to 2050 A Manual for National to Decarbonize by Mid-Century (https://roadmap2050.report/). This roadmap uses a systems approach using technologies currently available to decarbonize power, transport, industrial and buildings sectors, tools and solutions to prevent the rise in world temperature beyond 1.5 ºC; analyzing the most appropriate technologies and the main barriers to reach a zero emissions scenario.
The COP25 Development & Climate Day
9 – 10 December at Madrid Polytechnic University, UPM, Industrial Engineering.
Low-Emissions Solutions Conference: Systems Transformation for a 1.5 Degree World. WBCSD, ICLEI and SDSN organized this conference together with the UPM.
The conference presented the SDSN/FEEM report: Roadmap to 2050 A Manual for National to Decarbonize by Mid-Century (https://roadmap2050.report/). This roadmap uses a systems approach using technologies currently available to decarbonize power, transport, industrial and buildings sectors, tools and solutions to prevent the rise in world temperature beyond 1.5 ºC; analyzing the most appropriate technologies and the main barriers to reach a zero emissions scenario.
COP25 Chile – Madrid 2019
From 2 to 13 December, COP25; the 25th Conference of the Parties, to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), was held in Madrid, Spain, under the presidency of the Chilean government. The venue was moved from Santiago de Chile to Madrid just 4 weeks before the Conference. The organizers did a remarkable work, and the presence of COP25 was felt all over Madrid.
The conference as such, was in general a disappointment, with very little progress as far as advancing the negotiations of the Paris and Kyoto Agreements, and this at a time when we are in a climate emergency and need urgent action.
The newspaper Business Insider bluntly put the conference in the numbers:
$100 million, 27,000 attendees, 1 prominent Swedish teenager, and 0 tangible outcomes.
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