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The COP25 Development & Climate Day

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

COP25 Madrid

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.