This Embassy of Italy, in collaboration with the Embassy of the United Kingdom and France to the Holy See, organized two virtual events to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement the Climate Ambition Summit 2020, in view of the preparatory events of COP26, which will take place in Milan from 28 September to 2 October 2021 (the “Youth4Climate: Driving Ambition” and the “PreCop26” Preparatory Conference), and of the COP26, which will be held in Glasgow from 1 to November 12, 2021.
On Wednesday 9 December at 6.00 p.m. we hosted the virtual vision of “A Life on Our Planet“, a documentary in which about eighty years of study and exploration of the Planet by 94-year-old Sir David Attenborough were summarized. In this video, the famous British broadcaster and natural historian explores the most important environmental and socio-environmental crises and challenges that our planet is facing and suggests behaviors and actions to reverse the ongoing climate change and the dramatic consequences on social justice and on the most vulnerable countries and populations.
On Thursday 10 December at 11.00 we hosted a virtual round table entitled “Facing climate change: from Paris to Glasgow via Milan”. After an introduction by Ambassador Sebastiani, British Ambassador Sally Axworthy and French Ambassador Elisabeth Beton Delègue, and following a videomessage from H.E.R. Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State, the discussion focused on the aspects highlighted in the documentary ‘A Life on Our Planet’ and saw the interventions of the following speakers: Sister Cécile Renouard (Director of the “Campus de la Transition”), Carmody Gray (Assistant Professor of Catholic Theology, Department of Theology and Religion, University of Durham), Prof. Enrico Giovannini (Spokesperson of ASviS – Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development), Sister Alessandra Smerilli, FMA (Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development). The event was moderated throughout by Solen De Luca, a journalist of TV2000.
The round table can be reviewed by clicking here.
