The 26th edition of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP26, will be held in Glasgow, Scotland in November 2020. The pre-COP will take place in Milan, Italy.
Climate Change Conference
G7 summit on 7 and 8 June focuses on climate too, Angela Merkel says
On 7 and 8 June 2015 Schloss Elmau, Germany, will be hosting the G7 summit. The group of the seven world’s leader economies, the seven most industrialised countries, includes Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Japan, the United States and Canada. Their heads of state annually gather to discuss the themes that characterised the previous
On 7 and 8 June 2015 Schloss Elmau, Germany, will be hosting the G7 summit. The group of the seven world’s leader economies, the seven most industrialised countries, includes Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Japan, the United States and Canada. Their heads of state annually gather to discuss the themes that characterised the previous months, and to define a common political guideline for future challenges.
The Group of Seven (G7) is an informal forum of the advanced economies, created by France in 1975 as a consequence of the first oil crisis. At the beginning of the 21st century this summit – the then G8, as it included Russia, now excluded because of the last year invasion of Crimea – has been harshly contested by the civil society in order to avoid the summit to be carried out behind closed doors, a condition now considered unacceptable.
Those years established the end of secret summits. Why did 7 politicians have the power to decide billions of people’s fate? It is an issue debated also today, since negotiations for defining the Transatlantic Trade Investment Partnership (TTIP) are being carried out by the United States and the European Union.
The most famous summit – negatively speaking – was held in Geneva in 2001, where a young no-global demonstrator was killed. After that year, summits are held in pleasant locations, far from city centres in order to avoid their destruction, and to avoid demonstrators to reach such places. In fact, this year’s summit will be hosted by the five-star German resort Schloss Elmau.
Over the years, G7 agenda has changed, excluding issues mainly related to trade and finance, but including more popular ones, such as occupational safety and health, the environment, and food security.
The German Chancellor Angela Merkel revealed the themes that will characterised 2015, a year full of crucial deadlines for our planet’s sustainable development.
“The agenda set by the German G7 presidency focuses strongly on the two major tasks facing the international community in 2015. The first will be tackled in the autumn, when the United Nations sets new sustainable-development goals. Decisions taken then will determine the course of international development policy for years. I am convinced that the G7 should now commit to eliminating hunger and absolute poverty by 2030. Only if we manage to secure the food supply for the world’s growing population will there be a chance of success for other development measures.
The second major global challenge is climate protection. For the first time in years, there is hope that the Paris conference in December will produce a climate agreement in which all countries, including emerging economies, undertake to reduce their emissions. This would take us closer to our goal of limiting the increase in global temperature to two degrees – which all the experts say is the only way to keep it within reasonable parameters.”
Siamo anche su WhatsApp. Segui il canale ufficiale LifeGate per restare aggiornata, aggiornato sulle ultime notizie e sulle nostre attività.
Quest'opera è distribuita con Licenza Creative Commons Attribuzione - Non commerciale - Non opere derivate 4.0 Internazionale.
Thanks to activists, the voice of the world’s peoples resounded through the COP25 like an alarm bell. Governments didn’t reach the results they demanded, but their cries and messages were stronger than ever, reaching even those who weren’t in Madrid.
Climate change poses a risk for millions. However, women are the most vulnerable to its negative consequences: a few simple considerations by the Italian Climate Network help us perceive the global implications of this.
The COP25 ended two days late and with very few steps ahead made. Climate negotiations in 2020 will be an uphill battle as political will clearly seems to be lacking, once again.
The last ten years have been the most “exceptional” and hottest decade ever, with extreme weather hitting people and ecosystems harder and more frequently. 2019 is also on course to becoming the second or third hottest year since records began.
Unite Behind the Science: this was the title of the conference held at the COP25 on 10 December. Greta Thunberg’s presence filled the arena, but this time it was scientists’ turn to speak.
25,000 delegates meet for the COP25 from 2 to 13 December. What can we hope this UN climate change conference, whose venue was changed from Santiago de Chile to Madrid, will achieve?
100 eminent people from all over the world, including Vandana Shiva, Naomi Klein and Noam Chomsky, have signed an open letter after the disappointing results of the COP24. A call-to-arms for climate against world leaders’ indifference.
The outcome of the COP24 in Katowice left many unsatisfied. Greta Thunberg, a young Swedish environmental activist, gave a harsh, heartfelt speech addressing world leaders.