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Today, ICSI is delighted to participate in a session at the G20 Social, which aims to increase the participation of non-state actors in the activities and processes of the #G20. The session, entitled 'Nature-positive and Resilient Coastal Zones', will explore how non-state actors are leading progress in integrating resilience into the maritime sector by presenting inspiring multi-stakeholder initiatives in the region. Savina Carluccio will be bringing the topic of nature-positive engineering to the table, advocating for a paradigm shift in engineering practice where nature is seen as part of the solution and considered as an equal partner. Read more about ICSI's work on Nature-positive Engineering in partnership with Lloyd's Register Foundation: https://lnkd.in/dQddNesZ More about the G20 Brasil 2024 Social: https://lnkd.in/dDkkDt5W High-Level Climate Champions, Governo do Estado do Rio de Janeiro Porto do Açu United Nations Global Compact

📣 This is an example of what we need to see more and more in the processes behind and during #negotiations! 🗣️ People committed to acting as #intermediaries to #amplify #youth voices who do not have access to negotiations but could bring innovative ideas and solutions. 🚧 There are so many #barriers that, more often than we think, prevent youth with the right expertise from participating in such events. These obstacles range from what we might consider almost “banal” and “overcome” in 2024, such as language barriers, to more “complex” issues like lack of funding and others. This is especially true for those representing countries severely afflicted by climate change and other crises, who require a seat at the negotiation tables even more. 🫱🏾🫲🏼 As always (almost my new mantra I would say), I think the key element is #collaborating and joining forces: we are not in a perfect system, so while we try to do our best to improve it, let’s use our own resources as much as we can to do better! 🙏🏻Thank you so much Camilla Melis for interviewing me and for what you are doing, it has been wonderful meeting and talking with you! A special thanks also to the amazing and supportive people who were interviewed with me and are putting so much effort into enhancing youth potential in different ways Laura Basconi, PhD, Stefano Cisternino, Elena Zurli, and Tonia Dalle! 💪🏻 Let’s keep going with initiatives like these!!

After my interview with Camilla Melis on youth climate action, I'm compelled to address the elephant in the room: Yes, my generation is passionate about climate change. 🏆 We march, we organize, we care deeply. But let's be real - we're tired of being hailed as the world's saviors.🫠 The 'Gen Z will fix it' narrative isn't just exhausting; it's a cop-out. We didn't create this crisis, yet we're expected to solve it with little more than reusable cups and second-hand clothes? Come on.😡 What we really need is intergenerational solidarity. 🤝We need the hard-earned wisdom of those who've fought for change before us. We need to learn from past movements - their triumphs and their missteps. And frankly, we need the people in power now to step up and take action.(I know you heard this bit quite a lot, but it seems not very well understood)❤️🩹 When I look at my own country, Italy🇮🇹, I'm filled with profound dismay. We're sliding at Olympic sprinter speed (quite fitting considering the current period) towards increasingly obvious forms of nostalgia for a dark period of the last century (those who understand will understand). I deeply fear for all the young activists who are fighting and strongly believing in what they do in the climate sphere.🤕 Yet, examples like Camilla Melis, Laura Basconi, PhD, Barbara Monticelli, and Elena Zurli (and many others) give me hope and make me want to say: To my fellow young people, humans have been trying to solve the issues that other humans have created for millennia. Grieve the loss of a type of future you may no longer have, and celebrate the whisperings of a better world for us all. The world isn't in our hands to save or destroy. We don't need to be hopeful or hopeless, we just need to be.🌞 We will do things out of love, and we will do things out of fear, but as long as with each step we take we slowly weave a new world, then that might just be enough. Let's stop with the 'kids will save us' rhetoric and start working together for real, systemic change. After all, isn't that what true leadership looks like?🫶

🌍 WorldGBC is proud to join #Mission2025 – a coalition of the world’s leading businesses, investors, subnational governments, scientists and data experts, and civil society leaders. By coming together we can elevate the voices of real economy leaders in support of governments to accelerate a successful transition and support those most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. As world leaders and policymakers are negotiating at #COP29 and the #G20, it’s time to #BeBoldOnBuildings and recognise the essential role of the built environment to deliver on the goals of the #ParisAgreement. We are calling on leaders to agree a high ambition NCQG in COP29 Azerbaijan to set ourselves up for #COP30 and publish sector-specific NDCs which are 1.5C aligned. We can only achieve 1.5C if we can #BeBoldOnBuildings. It’s not game over, it’s game on. #Mission2025 Be bold and join our call today: https://lnkd.in/ezgMdypD #BuildingTheTransition #BuildingToCOP #BuildingToCOP29

We are thrilled to have been kindly featured in an article by #GreenandBeyondMag, who have taken a deep dive into our work at #COP29 👇 📣 YNA Co-founder Veena Balakrishnan shares why the role of youth in multilateral decision making, "Young negotiators can strengthen trust in these systems and revitalise their purpose." 📣 Marie-Claire Graf, also a YNA Co-founder, adds "We aim to ensure that young people have a genuine seat at the table as delegates representing their countries" Read the full article below to learn more about our mission, our wonderful young negotiators, and what we got up to at #COP29. 💡 https://lnkd.in/e84zbBk2

📄 TERI's recently released discussion paper, "A Transformative Global Goal on Adaptation: Scope, Science and Policy," highlights the urgent need for the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) to address key gaps in global #climatepolicy, especially for developing nations. It calls for expanding GGA's scope to strengthen scientific capabilities, create adaptation-friendly financial systems, and enhance global linkages in #adaptation strategies, ensuring #climateresilience for #vulnerablecommunities worldwide. 🖇 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞: https://lnkd.in/gmUh5nM9 Suruchi Bhadwal | Manish Shrivastava | Ronnie Abolafia-Rosenzweig | Christine Shields | Mari Tye #TERIatCOP29 #COP29 #ClimateAction #GlobalAdaptation #ClimateJustice #SustainableDevelopment #AdaptationFinance

Tick Tock: Can We Deliver Climate Action at COP29: Reflection and Analysis from SBI60. June 1st, I arrived in Bonn, Germany – the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s (UNFCCC) secretariat – with high anticipation for the SB60 meeting and a bit of nervousness. Anticipation because it was my first SBs, and nervousness because I was speaking at a high-level event on linkages between technology mechanisms and financial mechanisms. I believe (or at least guess) you are familiar with the UNFCCC’s COP meetings. The most recent (COP28) was hosted by the UAE government in Dubai. By November 11, 2024, the government of Azerbaijan will host the next (COP29) in Baku. Apart from the yearly COPs meetings, there are also the half-year SB meetings – not as popular nor as ceremonial. This year (June 3 – 13), the 60th Session of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) and the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SB60) held again in Bonn. Many of the negotiated topics from COP28 were key agendas during the SB60 and would fit into COP29. I was present. I was one of 15 changemakers of the Climate Diplomacy Action Programme (CPAD), a program commissioned by the German Foreign Office and Implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH selected to participate in the meeting. For 10 days, in the company of approximately 6,000 other participants from across the world; through formal and informal meetings, I interacted and learnt from party delegates, leaders from private sector businesses and multilateral organizations, observers, representatives of Indigenous communities, youth groups, NGOs, and INGOs. “We cannot afford to reach Baku with too much work still to do. Please, make every hour here count.” This was Simon Stiell, the UNFCCC UN Executive Secretary’s remarks at the opening ceremony of SB60. After ten days of intensive negotiations and meetings, do parties still have “too much” work awaiting us at Baku (COP29)? For me, I would say #SB60 concluded with a mixed bag of progress and challenges. Read my reflection using the link below and I hope you learn something useful. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dmSvbyyt Cheers 🥂

WASCAL’s participation in COP 29 will further strengthen partnerships with international organizations and stakeholders, offer its expertise to cutting-edge #climateresearch and innovation, create more opportunities for collaboration and knowledge sharing, and increase #capacitybuilding and training opportunities for West African scientists. #COP29 #climatediplomacy

The UN Summit of the Future in NYC convened world leaders and key stakeholders for a once-in-a-generation opportunity to rebuild trust and reshape collaboration in our interlinked, rapidly evolving world. The discussions focused on addressing emerging risks while seizing new opportunities. A pivotal outcome of the Summit was the adoption of the Pact for the Future, charting a collective path toward a better future for all. As we look ahead to the next UNCCD Conference of the Parties in Riyadh this December, we are keenly aware that the decisions made at this critical gathering will shape the future of our land, with profound implications for generations to come. Now is the time to take action. #UNited4Land #OurCommonFuture #COP16 Riyadh https://lnkd.in/eft3hzB2

The first commentary in our Future of COP series is from Sandrine Dixson-Declève, co-president of The Club of Rome, co-author of Earth for All, and executive chair of the Earth4All initiative. 👉 To ensure a safe #ClimateFuture for humanity, we need better global governance and courageous leadership. 👉 She calls for the United Nations to shift gears to focus all efforts on meeting global goals and commitments by 2050, and a rapid and radical transformation of the #COP process. 👉 The gap between scientific and justice-based demands and what petro-states accept highlights COP's fundamental inability to deliver timely, scalable #ClimateAction. We need to bridge the gap between #science and #action. Read more from her insightful commentary in Frontiers Policy Labs on the urgent need to reform COP to deliver real climate action through content and format changes ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dZ-UPxyq #COP29 #COP29Azerbaijan #FrontiersForClimate #PlanetaryHealth #PlanetaryBoundaryScience