From the USA to Ecuador, civil society is mobilizing to stop climate change [podcast]

While as humanity we increasingly feel the consequences and impacts of climate change in our daily lives, we have been discussing for weeks the book by General Vannacci, best-selling in Italy, which defines the climate crisis is a "bogeyman" and claims that the tons of CO₂ that we emit are a good "because they allow us to be born in a hospital".

All this in the same weeks in which Copernicus, the European climate change service, he said that in 2023 we had the hottest summer on record.Heat waves, floods and fires have not abandoned Europe and North America.In the Alps, freezing point was reached at 5,328 meters (and it is another negative record).The storm that hit eastern Libya is news in recent days. There is currently talk of over 5 thousand deaths.Phenomena of this type are intensifying as the planet warms.

The climate crisis is getting worse and not newsworthy

And while it's still there who tries to insinuate doubts And question the anthropic origin of climate change and that we can talk about a climate crisis, the UN Global Stocktake – a very important report that takes stock of how we are in the fight against the climate crisis 8 years after the Paris Agreement and will be the basis for the negotiations of the next COP28 in Dubai – he states that the window to keep global warming within 1.5°C compared to the pre-industrial era is “narrowing rapidly”.And it indicates some paths to follow.Let's see which ones.

Precisely in view of the United Nations Conference in Dubai at the end of November, African states gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, in the first Africa Climate Summit of history.The goal:find a united position in view of the negotiations at COP28 and launch a project for the economically sustainable energy transition of Africa.How did it go?

How Africa can help decarbonise the world

Finally, two good news.From Montana a sentence arrives which could be a lesson.For the first time a climate lawsuit presented by a group of young people, aged 5 to 23, went to trial and won.There are currently 2,180 cases underway worldwide, two in Italy.We had talked about the Montana case in a round-up in June.

And then in Ecuador a referendum was passed that stops the development of all new oil wells in the Yasuní national park, in the Amazon, one of the richest biodiversity regions on the planet.Over 58% of citizens voted to stop to oil drilling thanks to the axis that has been created between the young generations and the grassroots organization of citizens and activists who have been fighting against the Chevron oil company for at least two decades.The world saved by kids, one might say, recalling the title of a book by Elsa Morante.Civil society mobilizing.

Why 16 young Montanans are suing the state over climate change.And what could happen in case of victory

We talked about all this in the third episode of "Che clima che fa", the podcast by Blue suitcase dedicated to the climate crisis, edited by Roman Angel, with Arianna Ciccone and the contribution of Antonio Scalari.

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