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I am 52 million people in Europe living in areas considered to be under water stress for at least one month a year:of these, 28%, approximately 15 million, are located in Italy.The trend is worsening, and these numbers are destined to grow in the coming years.According to the United Nations Mediterranean Programme, water demand will double or even triple by 2050.World Water Day is celebrated on March 22nd, established in 1992:every year we talk about the importance of protecting this fundamental resource, but then the data we find before our eyes are increasingly worrying. The water crisis is not coming.It's already here “We continue to address the water issue with an emergency approach:little is said about the importance of protecting this common good, except when it is in short supply", says Stefania Di Vito of the scientific office of Legambiente, an expert in the uses of water resources.“Public discourse is too centered on the logic of accumulation:there is a lot of talk a...

Of Elena Colli, Matteo Spini, Jacopo Targa* “We die in Milan”, read the banners of one of the many demonstrations that have taken place in the city in recent months.Unfortunately, 2024 also opened with tragic news:Ivano Calzighetti, 37 years old, was hit and killed by a person driving a car while he was returning home by bicycle. According to open data on the victims of road accidents in Milan, in 2023 29 people lost their lives on the streets of the Milanese municipality.If you look at the number of collisions involving bicycles in the city, you notice that in 2022 the highest number of all the large Italian municipalities was recorded in Milan. For this reason, Milanese cycling activism has attracted a lot of attention in recent times:the numerous actions implemented to request greater safety on the streets of Milan - garrisons, human cycle paths, traffic blocks, "illegal cycle paths" - have attracted the attention of the media national and sometimes as well international....

The 'Mattei Plan' revealed:5.5 billion euros on the table and the feeling of a missed opportunity Update January 31, 2024: During the Italy-Africa summit, the first international appointment of the Italian presidency of the G7, the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, he revealed the so-called Mattei Plan, or at least he talked about figures and mentioned possible initiatives in Africa.In front of representatives of 46 countries (including heads of state and government) and 25 multilateral bodies, gathered in the Senate, Meloni he announced the forecast of "5.5 billion euros between credits, gift operations and guarantees:approximately 3 billion from the Italian climate fund and 2.5 billion and a half from the development cooperation fund".There are already pilot projects, from Morocco to Kenya, from Algeria to Mozambique, from Egypt to Ethiopia with the involvement of 12 investee companies (from Eni to Leonardo) in five areas of intervention:vocational education and training, health, water...

“The original proposal to halve pesticides in the European Union by the end of the decade has become a symbol of polarization.”The words of the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, summarize the climate/food blackmail in which the European Union finds itself entangled and manifests, unconsciously, the surrender and all the ineptitude of a ruling class incapable of implementing a model of development and sustenance different from that on which the planet has been based so far. “No farm, no food”, “Our end will mean your hunger”, we read on the banners carried by breeders and farmers practically all over Europe.Not only in Germany, in France, in the Netherlands.The protests spread to Spain, Greece, Romania, Lithuania, Poland and even Italy, with tractors wanting to go up to the Sanremo stage to take part, too, in the total social event that enchants our world every February. country and our discussions. For now, after the meeting with Minister Lollobrigida a...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. While world leaders were gathered for the United Nations General Assembly and the subsequent “climate ambition summit”, over 70 thousand climate activists they filled the streets of New York on Sunday 17 September, to ask the President of the United States, Joe Biden, to stop the approval of new fossil fuel projects.The demonstration was supported by more than 700 global climate organizations who participated in protests in numerous other countries. “Thousands of people around the world are returning to the streets to demand that we stop what is killing us.We need to think about who will be living on our planet in 30, 40, 50 years.And negative responses are not contemplated,” he said Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez during the rally. Among the participants was 8-year-old Athena Wilson of Boca Raton, Florida.She and her mother Maleah flew from Florida to New York.We...