From 7 to 13 September 2017 the first Club of Rome Summer Academy “Challenging an unsustainable economic system” took place in Florence (Italy) in cooperation with the University of Florence. The Academy brought together students and academics, young professionals, aspiring entrepreneurs, artists and activists as well as some of the world’s leading social and systems thinkers. The conference offered in-depth, cutting-edge insights into the problems of our economic system and into various potential solutions. About 120 people from 25 different countries participated.
In this occasion, I wrote and delivered the workshop “Human Rights and Climate Change: the role of Climate Justice in the SDGs realisation” to one of the working groups of the Club of Rome Summer Academy.
Generative Communication (Luca Toschi, University of Florence)
Can We Still Meet the Paris Agreement? (Anders Wijkman, Co-President of the Club of Rome)
Tech for Humanity – Reflections on the Technological Revolution (Carlos Pereira, Anders Wijkman)
A New Enlightenment: At the Core of the New Club of Rome Report “Come On” (Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Co-President of the Club of Rome)
Ressources, Greed & Cooperation: Fishbanks Simulation Game (Orsolya Ujj, Brigitta Pulay, and Atilla Krall)
The Seneca Effect – Why Growth is Slow, But Collapse is Rapid (Ugo Bardi, University of Florence)
Solving Inequality – A Central Platform for the Health of the Population, the Economy and the Planet (Kate Pickett, University of York)
Medeas Workshop: Designing a New Energy-Economy Model (Ugo Bardi, Sara Falsini, Davide Natalini, Ilaria Perissi, Jordi Sole, Inigo Cappellan-Perez, and Sara Falsini)
New Well-Being Measures – Beyond GDP Workshop (Katherine Trebeck, Oxfam UK)
Reshaping Capitalism: An Asian Worldview (Chandran Nair, Founder Global Institute for Tomorrow)
I joined the EIT Climate-KIC in 2018 as an event manager. I worked in direct contact with the CEO Team to deliver the events of the organisation, including major events like the Partners Retreat (the Hague) and the Whole of EIT Climate-KIC (Amsterdam). My key responsibility and achievements included:
Successfully managing 10 events across Europe (between 10 and 300 guests)
Reviewing and improving processes and procedures to bring in compliance with the EU procurement policy on transparency and equal treatment
Supporting the logistical organisation of four Regional Innovation Scheme workshops (30+ attendance on average) and contributing with some content production for the events (topics - just transition, innovation, sustainability, circular economy)
After a year of trial lessons in 2015, Italian Climate Network launched in September 2016 the School Project, an annual series of classes to explain climate change to secondary school students. The project has a multidisciplinary approach highlighting the tight connection between these issues and topics like human rights, health, waste management and climate science. The educational initiative aims at providing correct knowledge about the phenomenon of young people, raising awareness and empowering them. In the 6 years circle 2015/2020, The School Project reached, 45 schools, 30 cities, 11 regions and engaged 8000+ students.
I am the author and lecturer of the Climate and Human Rights lesson of the Italian Climate Network’s School Project. Between 2016 and 2020 I regularly travelled to Italy to deliver the project to Italian schools.
For more info please visit the Italian Climate Network website.
Italian Climate Network (ICN) regularly attend the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conferences with a delegation of young observers. The delegation provides support to the ICN’s advocacy action, monitoring activities and technical reporting of the conference with detailed insights on the ongoing negotiations and side event topics.
Key Responsibilities and Achievements
UNFCCC Civil Society Observer since 2015 (from COP21 to COP26 & intermediates)
Authored 50+ articles and briefs (COPs’ outcomes, climate justice, just transition, human rights…)
Collaborating with the Women and Gender Constituency and the Human Rights Working Group on monitoring and reporting on the UNFCCC talks, advocacy work within the UNFCCC including drafting of official manifestos and statements, peaceful demonstrative actions organisation (since 2015)
Spokesperson for the Women and Gender Constituency, UNFCCC COP23 closing Plenary (2017)
Obtained official membership to the Women and Gender Constituency (2016)
Obtained ICN’s accreditation at the UN ECOSOC (2019)
ICN representative to the UN Climate Change Summit (2019)
ICN’s spokesperson on gender and human rights topics (release of interviews for Rai News, Lifegate, Giornalisti nell’Erba, Radio Popolare)
Successfully ran and participated in 6 side events at the UNFCCC, overseeing content/PR, logistics and follow-up (average 80+ guest attendance and the participation of major stakeholders as international experts and governments representatives)
Voluntary compensations – social and environmental benefits of the Faircarbon proposal - UNFCCC COP21 (2015)
Event live with Francesco La Camera, General Director of the Italian Environmental Ministry - UNFCCC COP22 (2016)
Protecting Human Rights, Health and Gender Equality from Climate Change - UNFCCC COP23 (2017)
Youth engagement in climate action in the Mediterranean - UNFCCC COP23 (2017)
ACE in action: examples of youth leadership on climate change education and awareness creation - UNFCCC SB46 (2017)
Climate change impacts and the human right to water - UNFCCC COP24 (2018)
For more info please visit the Italian Climate Network’s website
The Young European Council (YEC) is a regional conference bringing together passionate young people from each EU Member State. The YEC takes place inside and outside the European Parliament, European Commission and Council of the European Union. The event aims at fostering the exchange between future leaders and top policy makers and providing innovative yet realistic input to inform European policy making.
Guests of this edition:
Mr. Michel Lebrun, President of the European Committee of Regions
Ms. Connie Hedegaard, European Commissioner for Climate Action
Mr. Matt Dann Secretary General, Secretary General Bruegel
Ms. Cheryl D. Miller, Co-Founder of the Digital Leadership Institute International
In the capacity of Communication Officer for the “Young European Council ” (YEC), I coordinated the promotion (online via social media end off line through YEL’s network) and the media coverage of the event. I was also in charge of the media content production and the training of the Media Delegates participating to the YEC. The 2014 edition saw the participation of 97 young Europeans, 63% of which were recruited thanks to the social media campaign I designed and delivered.
For more information please visit Young European Leadership’s website.
The global workshop “Training for Trainers – Sexual and Reproductive Rights” was held at the Amnesty International IS in October 2014. The aim of the experience was to train AI activists and project leaders to interact and engage the public on sexual and reproductive rights issues.
I was the Project Coordinator for the logistics and Training Assistant for the global workshop “Training for Trainers on Sexual and Reproductive Rights” held at the International Secretariat of Amnesty International in London. I coordinated the event’s logistics and delivered training on sexual and reproductive rights issues. The event involved 53 Amnesty International’s activists and project leaders from all over the world.
Closing the gap between the actual and the desired level of investments to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) is clearly beyond the reach of governments and public lenders. This problem can be addressed only with the engagement of the private sector in the shift towards sustainable models of production, respectful of the environments and human rights. Participants at this year’s OECD Global Forum on Development took stock of existing initiatives to catalyse the power of the private sector in supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals, explored new avenues of partnerships to mobilise the necessary resources.
Some of the most important personalities from the diplomacy, financial and global businesses world, attended the event, as:
Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General
Amina J. Mohammed, UN Deputy Secretary-General
Alain Papiasse, Deputy General Director of BNP Paribas
Amy Jadesimi, managing director of LADOL International
As Italian Climate Network delegate I attended the Global Forum to have an insight on the current business approaches to the shift towards a greener economy and more sustainable means of production.
In 2015 Italian Climate Network started the development of a new educational initiative, the “School Project”. Secondary schools in Italy don’t always integrate climate change in their curricula. Through a series of multidisciplinary lessons, the project aims at providing accurate knowledge about this phenomenon to young people, raising awareness and empowering them. After a series of trial lessons, the authors gathered in Milan on the 8th July 2016, to share the results of their work and train the team of speakers for the project's launch, scheduled for September 2016.
Authors and presentations:
Federico Brocchieri – CLIMATE CHANGE: CAUSES, CONSEQUENCES AND SOLUTIONS Federico Brocchieri – CLIMATE NEGOTIATIONS Chiara Soletti – CLIMATE AND HUMAN RIGHTS Benedetta Rossi – CLIMATE AND HEALTH Federico Capezzuoli – CLIMATE AND WASTE MANAGEMENT Marco Milano – CLIMATE SCIENCE
As the author of the “Climate and Human Rights” lesson of the Italian Climate Network’s School Project, I presented the results of my work and contributed to the formation of the new team of lecturers.
For more info please visit the Italian Climate Network website.
Born as an in-depth column in 2015, the success of the "Women, Rights and Climate" initiative has turned its activity into a stable Section of Italian Climate Network (ICN). The group has been renamed over time into Climate and Human Rights Department and carries out activities aiming at analysing the link between climate change and human rights, with a defined focus on gender issues. As Department Coordinator, I develop activities on the consequences of climate change on people’s lives, analysing how to alleviate the struggle of vulnerable groups from a human rights perspective. In the same capacity, I have been participating in the UNFCCC climate negotiations since 2015, monitoring the human rights principles integration in the implementation of the Paris Agreement and Paris Rule Book, participating in the advocacy activities of the Women and Gender Constituency and collaborating with the Inter-Constituencies Human Rights Working Group. Thanks to the experience I gained at the UNFCCC and in recognition of my successful application for the UN ECOSOC consultative status, in 2019 I have started working also in a Policy Advisor capacity, using the ECOSOC consultative status to monitor how climate change issues are integrated into UN spaces traditionally dedicated to human rights.
Key Responsibilities and Achievements
Collaborating with the Women and Gender Constituency and the Human Rights Working Group on monitoring and reporting on the UNFCCC talks, advocacy work within the UNFCCC including drafting of official manifestos and statements, peaceful demonstrative actions organisation (since 2015)
Authored 50+ articles and reports (COPs’ outcomes, climate justice, just transition, human rights…)
Spokesperson for the Women and Gender Constituency, UNFCCC COP23 closing Plenary
Representative for the Women and Gender Constituency, UNFCCC COP24 COP Presidency question time
Monitor how climate change issues are integrated into UN spaces traditionally dedicated to human rights (UN Partnership Forum 2022, United Nations Environmental Assembly (UNEA-5), Commission on the Status of Women (CSW66), High-Level Political Forum 2022)
For more information please visit Italian Climate Network’s website.
The “Eat & Meet” events bring together at the same table young people and senior experts and allow them to exchange opinions, ideas and experiences. Each senior leader shares her or his table with six to eight aspiring leaders interested in her/his field of expertise, share her/his life experience as well as in-depth background about their job. In turn, the dinner is a chance for the senior decision makers to connect with young leaders, understand their concerns, and fresh exchange ideas.
Guests of this edition:
Esther Maughan, Comms and Networks Director, Forum4thefuture
Fergus Green, Policy Analyst & Research Advisor to Prof. Stern at the LSE’s Grantham Research Institute
Matthew Tod, Partner within the Consulting division of PwC
Orivaldo Barros, Building Research Establishment (BRE)
Sia Houchangnia, Analyst at Seedcamp
As the Project Officer for the logistics and communication of the “Eat & Meet” London, I managed the delivery of the event (40 participants) and ensured media coverage and content production for further dissemination.
For more information please visit Young European Leadership's website
