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.
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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.