Toward COP 26: The Climate Challenge and Energy Transition
Rome, 16 September 2021 – Aspen Institute Italia, in partnership with EDISON, will be holding an Aspenia Talk on “Climate change: the COP26 challenge”.
Rome, 16 September 2021 – Aspen Institute Italia, in partnership with EDISON, will be holding an Aspenia Talk on “Climate change: the COP26 challenge”.
Even before the pandemic hit, a general reconsideration was already underway of various ongoing global phenomena in labor, such as the rise of new professions, the globalization of job supply and increased international competition, along with the exponential spread of digital technologies and automation. The events of the past 18 months have served to accelerate these processes while at the same time also offering opportunities for significant intervention.
Rome, 9 July 2021 – Aspen Institute Italia, in partnership with CESI, will be holding an Aspenia Talk on “Energy in the post-COVID transition between geopolitics and growth” in digital mode.
Policies for waging the battle against climate change and for and managing the phenomenon are central to both the post-pandemic economic recovery and to transatlantic relations at this new stage of opportunity for Euro-American cooperation. The slogan adopted by Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral campaign – “Build Back Better” – can be considered overall a highly appropriate approach to the international circumstances that distinguish 2021.
Marco Alverà
CEO, Snam
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The years 2020-2021 have inevitably been dominated by the pandemic crisis, which is still generating uncertainties on an enormous scale, both directly in terms of the prospects of economic recovery, and indirectly due to the social and political repercussions, some of which may bring highly significant medium- and long-term geopolitical consequences. Here are the main points that emerged in our discussion – not always in unanimous form – among the participants, which we consider to be the key takeaways:
Erik Jones
Director of European and Eurasian Studies; Professor of European Studies and International Political Economy, Johns Hopkins University
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Richard Burt
Managing Director, McLarty Associates
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Oksana Antonenko
Director at the Global Risk Analysis team, Control Risks Group
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Margaritis Schinas
Vice President, European Commission
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Ilaria Capua
Director, One Health Center of Excellence, University of Florida
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Peter Sands
Executive Director, The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tubercolosis and Malaria
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Emanuela del Re
Vice Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Rome
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Adam Posen
President, Peterson Institute for International Economics
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Charles A. Kupchan
Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
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Rome, 19 January 2021 – To tie in with the publication of Aspenia 91, a journal edited by Marta Dassù, Aspen Institute Italia, in partnership with RAINEWS 24, will be holding an Aspenia Talk on the Zoom platform tomorrow, 20 January, at 17:30. President Joe Biden’s inaugural address will be aired live in the course of the debate – see attached invitation.
What is waning more in the West, civility or democracy? There has been talk for a century now of Western “decline”, understood as demographic and economic, but also the decline of fundamental values such as freedom, democracy and openness. Interpretations have gone so far as to speak of a broad decline in moral values. It can be seen as the beginning of a different perception of the world’s diversities.
On November 24, 2021, the Italian government adopted a 2022-2024 strategic artificial intelligence program jointly drafted by the ministries of university and research, of economic development and of technological innovation and digital transition. In the global race for technological development, the program traces a roadmap for policies aimed at promoting the country’s competitiveness by strengthening national level professional competences and research in the field of artificial intelligence.