Impacts, risks, adaptations

Greta Thunberg meets EAERE President at the Italian Senate

15 April 2019By

Young Swedish activist Greta Thunberg will be in Italy on April 18. She will meet EAERE President Carlo Carraro during the conference promoted by the President of the Italian Senate Elisabetta Casellati, titled “Climate: it’s time to change”. They will discuss the global climate crisis with other high-profile speakers: Antonio Navarra, President of the Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change Foundation (CMCC); Enrico Giovannini, Economist and spokesperson of the Italian Association for Sustainable Development (ASviS) and Daniela Ducato, Founder of Edizero.

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Official press release from the web site of the Italian Senate: https://www.senato.it/comunicato?comunicato=1587

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Water, agriculture, forestry

World Water Development Report 2019

4 April 2019By

The WWDR, coordinated by the World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP), is a joint initiative of the UN agencies and entities which make up UN-Water, working in partnership with governments, international organizations, non-governmental organizations and other stakeholders. The WWDR is an annual and thematic report that focuses on different strategic water issues each year and its aim is to provide decision-makers with the tools to implement the sustainable use of our water resources. The report includes regional aspects, hotspots, examples and stories; this makes it relevant to a broad range of readers, at different levels and in different geographical areas.

The United Nations World Water Development Report 2019 – Leaving no one behind was launched on 19 March during the 40th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), in conjunction to the World Water Day. It showcases improvements in water resources management and access to water supply and sanitation services, demonstrating their importance to various social and economic inequities. The goal is that ‘no one is left behind’ when it comes to benefiting from the multiple opportunities that water provides.

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Cities

New report by World Bank & World Resources Institute: Integrating Green and Gray

3 April 2019By

“Integrating Green and Gray – Creating Next Generation Infrastructure” is a joint report from the World Bank and the World Resources Institute (WRI) that aims to advance the integration of green and gray infrastructure solutions. It focuses on the global growing infrastructures crisis, driven by climate change and population increase. It provides insights, solutions and examples for “putting nature to work”. The report analysis the technical, environmental and economic dimensions of a typical project assessment and also outlines the enabling conditions required to promote a successful implementation of green-gray projects. Its aim is to encourage timely action both in the policy and practice fields.

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Photo credits: The World Bank Group

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Policy Outreach Events

Policy and academia: bridging the gap – Policy Session

28 March 2019By

Policy Session at the EAERE Conference organised by the EAERE Policy Outreach Committee.

The session organized by the EAERE POC intends to discuss how to facilitate and create a more integrated dialogue between academia and policy world. The two contexts have departed from each other over time, becoming increasingly technical and partially separated. To fill the gap between these two realms, there is a need to substantiate quantitatively what policies work and what their relative contribution is. In line with the aim of the EAERE POC (i.e. providing advice and support to EU policy makers and institutions in designing policy interventions), a few questions will be addressed during the session to facilitate and promote the discussion: (i) Which policies instruments have performed better/worst so far? (ii) What are the main results emerging from ex-post evaluation of specific policies? (iii) Where are such evaluations mainly needed?

EAERE 24th Conference website: http://www.eaere-conferences.org/

SPEAKERS’ SLIDES
SIMONE BORGHESI
CHRISTIAN GOLLIER
PHOEBE KOUNDOURI
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