In 2023, the EU has enacted its most ambitious legislation to protect global forests: the EU-Deforestation Free Regulation (EUDR), the first to ever directly address the leading cause of deforestation - agriculture. Yet, two months before its actual start, the global response has been so intense that the Commission itself has proposed a one year delay in its implementation, and its future is still unclear. The debate is now so fierce that it has involved not only Member States but trading partners from all over the world, from Indonesia to Brazil and the US.

The event will discuss opportunities and challenges that the Green Deal strategy may encounter over the next five years. The conversation will be kickstarted with the presentation of the fourteenth issue of Green Deal Watch, a quarterly publication edited by the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) that monitors European climate policy developments.

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Under the Italian presidency, the G7 countries have announced the progressive abandonment of coal for energy production by the first half of the 2030s or in a period consistent with maintaining the temperature increase within one and a half degrees. To this end, it is necessary to promote the development of innovative technologies through structural interventions and investments. The event intends to discuss the key technologies for decarbonisation on the path towards "Net-Zero" and the possible paths to be taken in the coming years.

On Thursday, October 17, at 5:30 PM, the event “Mediazione, sicurezza, transizione energetica: casi studio a confronto” will take place at the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino. During this event, a number of winning projects from the previous edition of the call on “Geopolitics and Technology” will be presented.