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The phase-out, the gradual abandonment of fossil fuels, was not included in the final text of Global Stocktake (GST). The document on which its greatest expectations were focused COP28 it was approved on the morning of December 13, one day after the work was scheduled to end. However, fossil fuels unmentionable for oil producing countries e unnamed in the texts of the last three decades of United Nations climate conferences, for the first time appear, although not in the formula that many would have liked:there were almost 130 countries lined up for the phase out, but the resistance of those oil producers did not allow more. The text invite (calls on, a terminology deemed weak in the jargon of climate diplomacy, there is no urgency) the parts to make one transition that you bring them away from fossil fuels, that it is “fair and orderly”, with decisive action in this “critical decade”.The English term on which the agreement was reached is new, it was not present in the drafts ci...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. More than 70,000 diplomats, politicians, business leaders and environmental advocates from around the world are expected to attend the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference which this year will be held in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, from November 30 to December 12. In fact, every year delegates from almost 200 states meet to discuss how to limit the increase in global temperatures and avoid the most disastrous consequences of climate change.This year's conference could be especially important as carbon emissions continue to hit record highs and the planet approaches potential tipping points that could send global warming out of control and trigger irreversible changes. Life on Earth is 'under siege' by man The Dubai summit comes after a summer of extreme weather events at all latitudes and in the midst of wars in Europe and the Middle East which could further...

At least 86 people, including 35 children, they are dead on the night between 25 and 26 February in the strip of sea that bathes Steccato di Cutro, a town with 400 inhabitants in Calabria, between Crotone and Catanzaro.They had left Turkey aboard a precarious and overloaded boat, with the aim of reaching the European Union and in many cases reuniting with family members who had faced the horrors of the crossing before them. The dozens of bodies brought back to shore by the waters confirm the failure of European - as well as Italian - policies for the management of migratory flows, excessively complicated already on paper and useless, then, in practice.It's from yesterday, March 28th relationship of the United Nations Human Rights Council which, in a three-year investigation, found "overwhelming evidence" that people stranded in Libya are being systematically tortured and forced into sexual slavery while trying to reach Europe.The report criticizes the European Union for “the suppor...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. The fires around Palermo, on the island of Rhodes, in Greece, in Algeria;the torrential rains that hit Milan at night;the record temperatures that continue from week to week and divide Europe, and Italy in particular, in two:thunderstorms in the north, Saharan dust in the centre-south. Perfect image to summarize what Italy is experiencing.Thunderstorms in the North and in part of Tuscany, intrusion of Saharan dust in the centre-south suspended within desert air masses.It is the last act of 17 days that are unlikely to be forgotten. pic.twitter.com/RJ7OgwRZwu— Giulio Betti (@Giulio_Firenze) July 25, 2023 If we needed further manifestations of the effects of the climate crisis, we are experiencing them first-hand. At all latitudes, from the far west to Japan.Nevertheless it's still there those who sow doubts, belittle and pollute the public debate by claiming that it is not the first...

When 94 people, including 35 children, drowned 40 meters from the Steccato di Cutro beach last February 26, the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, said:“If we could, we would have saved the migrants.”And he had blocked the requests for transparency on the opaque chain of rescue and resignation of the Minister of the Interior, Matteo Piantedosi, for his words of rare inhumanity immediately after the tragedy and for the rescue intervention after the shipwreck had already occurred. The errors, flaws and falsehoods of the government's version of the Cutro massacre The government did not deliberately cause the migrants to die, Meloni responded to these requests while the blame and buck-passing between the Coast Guard (which reports to the Ministry of Transport) and the Financial Police (which reports to the Ministry of the Interior) continued. and Frontex (the European Border and Coast Guard Agency).Among those who claimed that they had been consulted only for information and that the...