THE FIRST DOLOMITE CONFERENCE ON THE GLOBAL GOVERNANCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE
The end of the zero-sum games.
The First Dolomite Conference on the Global Governance of Climate Change
BOLZANO - TRENTO
20th - 22nd October 2022
The first Conference of the Parties (COP) – the supreme United Nations decision making body where the 196 countries of the world agree the convention dealing with climate change – was held in Berlin in 1995. In 2021, twenty-six years later the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the report assessing progress towards the COP’s targets had to acknowledge failure: since 1995 the observed global temperature has raised from 0,5 to almost 1,35 degrees above the mean values recorded in the period 1850 – 1900 preceding the last industrial revolution; the landmark objective of keeping such increase within 1,5 will not be reached not even in the most optimistic scenario in terms of reduction of CO2 emissions. In fact, 2020 was the hottest year of history, notwithstanding the sharp deceleration of human activities due to the Covid19 restrictions.
The fight to climate change and, more widely, the need to preserve the environment has, however, yielded an interesting result: it has indeed been the most powerful force towards more and better global governance. We do badly need to govern a globalization which is rapidly unfolding on a technological, financial, and even natural plane (as the COVID19 pandemic has dramatically demonstrated). It is again climate change which is exposing the inadequacy of a diplomatic machinery – the UN, the World Bank, the very COP – which was conceived at the end of the WW2 and shaped around a different, more stable world order. The existing global governance instruments had great merits in the second part of the twentieth century (although amid a number of crises) and yet they need to be greatly overhauled to respond to the complexity which are defining the new century.
Vision and its partners are thus convening a three-day meeting from the 20th to the 22nd of October where thirty visionary intellectuals, policy makers, entrepreneurs, managers, journalists, political and natural scientists will gather to start up a discussion on how to win a battle which we cannot lose and how to reform global governance instruments so that they may adapt themselves to the 21st century.
The major distinctiveness of the conference will be that it is meant to be a proper problem-solving place: the objective is, thus, to work – within the annual conference, but also via a number of brainstorming web sessions to be held between events – as a lab where radical and yet pragmatic ideas may emerge. We will, then, convene a very pluri-disciplinary group of participants because we are convinced that the nature of the question requires us to go beyond the logic of purely relying on experts. We will also make sure that the conference is articulated by problems to be solved into working groups and plenary discussions whose conclusions will be reported by the chairs and introducers of various sessions. The entire work will be coordinated by Vision and follow a methodology that Vision is successfully applying to the sister cycle of conference titled "Vision Conference on the future of Europe" (of which Vision organized the first two edition in Messina/Taormina and the third edition in Siena).
The Conference is been organized together with AXA Italia and Autostrade per il Brennero. Our scientific partners are Bocconi and Politecnico di Milano. The even will take place in two iconic locations: Castel Firmian in Bolzano and Castello del Buonconsiglio in Trento.
Confirmed chairs of the Conference are Stefania Giannini (Assistant Director-General for Education at UNESCO in PARIS and former Italy’s Minister of Education, University and Research), Alexandra Borchardt (Director of the Journalism Innovators Program at Hamburg Media School, Senior Research Associate at the Reuters Institute at the University of Oxford, former managing editor of Süddeutsche Zeitung), Bill Emmott (Chairman of the trustees and advisors of the International Institute of Strategic Studies in London and former editor-in-chief of The Economist ), Enrico Giovannini (Italy’s Minister of Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility, former Chief Statistician at OECD and former Italy’s Minister of Labor).
For more information, please contact Clara Donati (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
