50 years ago, the first international UN summit on the environment was held at Stockholm. Next June 2-3, the world’s environment ministers will commemorate half a century of international environmental governance. Since 1972, there have been significant moments of international cooperation to manage threats to our planet: from a nuclear ban treaty, to global cooperation to save the ozone, to earlier this year when the UN decided to create the world's first global plastics treaty. Yet, in those 50 years, governments have failed to address the top threat to our climate, biodiversity, human health and water: fossil fuels.

Fossil fuels aren’t only a risk to our climate; they threaten every single sustainable development goal,  the main focus of  Stockholm+50. If we want a chance of preventing disastrous socio-environmental impacts by 2072, no new fossil fuel projects can be built.

Join our press briefing to know more about what is at stake at the Stockholm+50 conference and the Treaty network tactics to make this commemorative summit an opportunity to put fossil fuel in the international climate agenda.

Moderator: Tzeporah Berman - Chair of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty and International Program director at Stand.Earth

Speakers:

• Rebecca Byrnes - Deputy Director of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty initiative

• Magdalene Amadi - S+50 Youth Task Force

• Simon Holmström - Nordic Council

• Andrés Tapia – Head of Communications at CONFENIAE (member of COICA)