Delegate: Han meimei
School: Tianshan University
Country: Italy
Committee: ECOSOC
Topic: Aging
Aging has become a world focus, for it is related to many other important issues. With the aging population problem, a series of the problems involves in economy,culture and society have came out, and our society bears heavier burden than before ,the shortage of manpower is serious, more fund need to be provided for the aged, also the development of social welfare culture has some conflict with the aging problem. As a developed country in Europe, Italy suffers more pressure of aging than other countries. According to data from the central bureau of statistics in Italy, aging population in Italy is the largest in Europe and the second largest in the world just after Japan. And because of the aging, our government need to put more money in pension ,this results to the high public fiscal deficit.
The united nations has paid much attention to the aging problem in the past quarter century. The second world congress on aging was hold in 2002 and Italy played an important role in the meeting. Also, United Nations Population Division’s reports about population pay more
concerns about the problem in developed countries including Italy. And we Italy continues following the rules from 2002 international plan of action on aging.
The Italy government is always trying its best efforts to handle the problem. The Italian prime minister Romano prodi once said that the government would reform the Pensions Regime but this reform faced an uncertain future. Since 1992, Italy has launched the first round of the reform to raise the retirement age and merge the public sector and private sector pension plan. The second round of reforms began in 1995 and the third one was in 1997. After those reforms, our public pension system becomes stronger.
Italy affirms its intention of cooperating with other countries on the issue of aging. Italy would like to utilize the power of Commission for Social Development and other related commissions. Also Italy is willing to provide more efficiency to exchange the information about aging problem. What’s more, Italy would like to establish cooperation on aging issue with third world countries. To sum up, Italy believes that with the cooperation among countries, aging issue could be solved better.
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Delegate: Han meimei
School: Tianshan University
Country: Italy
Committee: ECOSOC
Topic: Climate Change
Climate change has become a world focus, for it will bring incalculable loss to the human beings. The notion that climate change will make human beings pay a huge price is accepted by more and more people all around the world. Italy is facing the climate change issue obviously. According a report from the Guardian, some beach in Italy has already disappeared because of the eroding of coastline and rising of sea level. And it is said that Italy is the place where the climate grows hot with the fastest speed, the economy and agriculture here will be affected seriously. What’s more, many coastal cities including Venice will be submerged if the climate continues rising.
The united nations has worked a lot on this issue. In 1992,many countries including Italy joined the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to work together and discuss what actions to take to restrict the rising of climate. In 1995, the Kyoto Protocol was passed and in 2007, the Bali Action Plan was passed. Then in 2009, the Copenhagen treaty was passed, Italy continues to support those treaties and follows those articles.
The Italy government is always trying its best efforts to handle the problem. The Italian national climate conference was held before to discuss the problem and try to formulate useful strategies. This meeting also arranged works for reducing the effects of climate change.
Italy affirms its intention of cooperating with other countries on the issue of climate change. Italy would like to utilize the power of Commission for Social Development and other related commissions. Also Italy is willing to provide more efficiency to exchange the information about climate problem. What’s more, Italy would like to establish cooperation on climate issue with third world countries. To sum up, Italy believes that with the cooperation among countries, climate change issue could be solved better.