Events

Presentation and discussion of the latest report of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU)

The co-chair of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) Karen Pittel will present the report “Healthy living on a healthy planet” in a keynote speech at the 7th Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health in Budapest. The keynote will open session 6: "Strengthening governance, knowledge and competencies for health and environment".

Long-term low emission development strategies (LTS), as under Article 4.19 of the Paris Agreement, can be a key instrument to implementing the Paris Agreement, if equity considerations are taken into account. To reach global climate stabilization, it is crucial that countries develop long-term visions, goals and strategic guidelines for climate policy, embedded in the wider sustainability agenda.

Long-term low emission development strategies (LTS), as called for in the Paris Agreement, are a key instrument to its implementation: they can guide short-term climate policy and climate finance towards climate stabilization, mobilize private capital and provide a basis for international cooperation on transformation pathways.

As the UK presidency of the upcoming climate conference in Glasgow (COP26) strives to “keep 1.5 degrees alive”, long-term low emission development strategies can provide orientation for more ambitious short-term climate policy, climate finance and Covid-19 responses consistent with this goal.

Only if there is a fundamental change in the way we manage land, we can reach the targets of climate-change mitigation, avert the dramatic loss of biodiversity and make the global food system sustainable, this is the key message of the report “Rethinking Land in the Anthropocene: from Separation to Integration”, recently submitted to the German Federal Government.

The recently published report of the UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation recommends to develop goals, principles and priority actions for a Global Commitment for Digital Cooperation.

The event will bring together country experts working on digital strategies for sustainability and representatives from leading UN initiatives like the STI Forum and UNDP Digital Strategy.

It will be decided in cities whether the transformation towards sustainability succeeds worldwide or not.

The symposium will  present a variety of important international approaches to decarbonisation at the  highest level of expertise and will work out respective advantages and disadvantages.