What Should be the Goals of Global Stocktake (GST)? : CSE
Date: 9th November 23 / Time 5:30 pm
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is a public interest research and advocacy organisation based in New Delhi. CSE researches into, lobbies for and communicates the urgency of development that is both sustainable and equitable. The scenario today demands using knowledge to bring about change. In other words, working India’s democracy. This is what we aim to do.The challenge, we see, is two-pronged. On the one hand, millions live within a biomass based subsistence economy, at the margins of survival. The environment is their only natural asset. But a degraded environment means stress on land, water and forest resources for survival. It means increasing destitution and poverty. Here, opportunity to bring about change is enormous.But it will need a commitment to reform – structural reform- in the way we do business with local communities. On the other hand, rapid industrialization is throwing up new problems: growing toxification and a costly disease burden. The answers will be in reinventing the growth model of the Western world for ourselves, so that we can leapfrog technology choices and find new ways of building wealth that will not cost us the earth. Our aim is to raise these concerns, participate in seeking answers and in pushing for answers, transforming these into policy and so practice. We do this through our research and by communicating our understanding through our publications. We call this knowledge-based activism. We hope we will make a difference.
The world has been working on its first Global Stocktake — the largest ever assessment of the progress made by countries towards achieving climate goals. This two-year process will culminate at COP28, where a set of actionable political outputs are expected.
What a successful Global Stocktake (GST) would look like and what its implications would be on the future of climate ambition are some things that are yet to be seen. Join us in our second webinar in the series of pre-COP28 online briefings to hear from experts and negotiators what they think should this GST achieve.
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CSE and COP28
- See our calendar of pre-COP28 briefings – Agenda for COP28
- A CSE team will be attending and reporting from COP28. To reach someone from the team, just contact
Sukanya Nair
sukanya.nair@cseindia.org
+91 88168 18864
