8th Global Nitrogen Conference
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4th IAERE School on Green and Climate Finance
Call for Applications – The deadline for applications July 26th, 2019
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ClimRisk19 – Climate Risk: implications for ecosystem services and society, challenges, solutions – SISC Seventh Annual Conference
Call for Abstracts – The deadline for abstract submission is July 25th, 2019
Green roofs in New York City
The New York City Council just approved the Climate Mobilization Act: a #GreenNewDeal4NY to mitigate the effects of greenhouse gas emissions from buildings. GHG emissions are a primary cause of climate change.
In New York, buildings are responsible of almost three-quarters of all emissions in the city. The “green roofs” measure is part of a package of legislation developed by the New York City Council to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve energy efficiency for certain buildings in New York City.
Read all on the Climate Mobilization Act on the NYC Council website here
Financing For Sustainable Development Report 2019
The UN Inter-agency Task Force on Financing for Development has released the fourth edition of the “Financing for Sustainable Development Report”, which provides a comprehensive assessment of the state of sustainable finance in 2019. The report offers recommendations for achieving concrete progress on financing for development, with a focus on the five SDGs under review at the July 2019 High-level Political Forum: those on quality education, decent work and economic growth, reduced inequalities, climate action, and peace, justice and strong institutions.The Report urges the international community to use this chance to reformulate the national and international financial systems to allow for sustainable development. recommends that the international community should use this opportunity to reshape both national and international financial systems in line with sustainable development. At stake is our ability to comply with the 2030 Agenda.
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15 March 2019: global strike for climate
This Friday (March 15) young students from all over the world will go on strike to make their voices heard: they are worried about the future of our planet.
Tens of thousands of students from more than 80 countries and territories are going to demonstrate to urge governments to take climate action now. The global youth movement was kick-started in 2018 by the Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg, who had started a weekly strike order to pressure her government to take more drastic climate action. Her determination has inspired many other young people to do the same. However, Friday’s protest is the first global one, with students around the world expected to take part.
“This is of course nothing that I expected,” Greta told The Straits Times. “None of this would have happened without all the channels of the global environmental community. Millions of people have been fighting for the climate for decades, and without them nothing would have happened.”
Source: https://en.mercopress.com/2019/03/11/world-youth-from-80-countries-plan-to-strike-on-friday-calling-on-countries-to-address-climate-change
For updates on the strike, follow the hashtags #Fridaysforfuture #ClimateStrike on social media.
Commission welcomes Francesco La Camera as newly elected Director-General of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) has elected its European candidate, Mr Francesco La Camera from Italy, as its new Director-General. Mr La Camera will succeed Mr Adnan Amin from Kenya, who has headed the organisation since it was officially inaugurated in 2011.
Read the News on the European Commission website
Photo Credits: IRENA
European Commission Carbon Market Report
The European Commission has adopted its annual report on the functioning of the European carbon market. The report, covering the year 2017, shows that in that period the EU power sector reduced its greenhouse gas emissions for the sixth year in a row. Emissions of industrial installations, however, which receive the vast majority of their emission allowances for free, slightly increased, leading to an overall increase in ETS emissions by 0.18% in comparison to 2016. While this breaks the decreasing trend since 2013, it can be explained by the highest growth in real GDP since 2011. Verified emissions from aviation continued to grow, marking an increase of 4.5% compared to 2016.
Efforts to reduce the surplus of allowances on the carbon market are starting to be rewarded. The surplus has declined for the third year in a row, by an overall amount of almost half a billion allowances. As of next year, the Market Stability Reserve will further reduce the surplus by 24% of its overall amount each year from 2019 until 2023.
The total revenues raised from selling ETS allowances from 2012 until the end of 2017 exceeded EUR 21 billion – on average EUR 3.5 billion per year. In 2017, EU Member States spent or planned to spend 80% of auction revenues on advancing climate and energy objectives – well above the 50% rule set under the EU ETS Directive.
Source: European Commission website
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EAERE-FEEM Summer School on “Econometric Approaches for Environmental Policy Evaluation”
EAERE-FEEM-VIU Summer School on “Econometric Approaches for Environmental Policy Evaluation”
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