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The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. 2023 will be remembered as the hottest year ever, the year of extreme weather events, heat waves, droughts, devastating fires, floods, the year of the criminalization of climate activists and one of the United Nations Climate Change most controversial ever he brought at the beginning of the end of the era of fossil fuels, without however putting their gradual elimination on paper. The agreement reached at COP28 and our future In early 2023, the International Energy Agency (IEA) spoke peak oil, gas and coal consumption will be exceeded for the first time before 2030.“It's not a question of 'if', but 'how soon' - and the sooner it happens, the better for all of us,” said Fatih Birol, executive director of the IEA.According to a scenario proposed by the International Energy Agency, based on the policies declared by the governments of various states around the wo...

What will happen to the Green Deal in light of the results of the European elections on 9 June?This is what many experts, activists and citizens concerned about the advance of far-right parties in France and Germany and the contraction of support for the Greens which in 2019 were the fourth force in the European Parliament, also driven by the driving force of the Fridays for Future and the student climate strikes.At the time, the newly elected President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, he declared to MEPs: “If there is one area where the world needs our leadership, it is climate protection…We don't have a minute to waste.The faster Europe moves, the greater the benefit for our citizens, our competitiveness and our prosperity." "Climate:2019 was the year of awareness, 2020 is the decisive year to intervene", we headlined on January 1, 2020. In these five years everything has changed.In between there were the pandemic, the lockdow...

by Andrew Stroehlein (from Daily Vrief, Human Rights Watch newsletter) As the effects of global warming become more and more evident, these days the heat has hit the front pages of newspapers around the world like never before. In Saudi Arabia, this month, more than 1300 people died during the Hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca.Heat stress was a major factor contributing to the death toll, with temperatures topping 50 degrees. In the United States, approximately 65 million people are facingheat alert, as another "heat bubble" pushed temperatures in some locations above 50 degrees.There are more heat waves in the country deadly hurricanes, floods and tornadoes strung together and heat-related deaths they are on the rise, with over 2300 in 2023. In both places - Saudi Arabia and the United States - the human damage was exacerbated by authorities who did not are adequately prepared or what they refused to address long-standing social issues, ignoring that some peo...

The European Parliament on 10 April voted in plenary composition the adoption of the new Pact for migration and asylum:the approved rules will be formally adopted, after the European Council has approved them, by June 2024.It is the end of a journey that began four years ago.The European Commission's 2020 legislative proposal was born with the aim of outlining a common European framework for the management of migration and asylum, with various legislative proposals. At the end of last year, the Council and the European Parliament had reached a provisional agreement, but that already he marked the direction of the Union's policy, sui five key pillars:the regulation on the management of asylum and migration, the response to migratory crises, asylum procedures, the implementation of the European Dactyloscopie (Eurodac) and the new screening procedures. What we talk about in this article:The enthusiasm of the European institutions for a vote they define as "historic"What the...

What they have in common the latest generation actions with the vandalism on the Montanelli statue? A widespread journalistic view sees these actions as protests as an end in themselves, driven by exhibitionist intentions and on issues not connected to the actions themselves.Even public positions closer to the climate and feminist causes have expressed skepticism in this regard because, while sharing the aim, they deplore the means whose striking and radical modality would risk alienating the public's sympathy. Yet behind the refusal of principle or strategic skepticism lies a very common unsaid:If these causes and these strategies are not going well, what should we fight for today and how should we carry these requests forward?Age reasons (the population aged 0-14 is 12.4%, while the population over 65 is 24%, ISTAT 2023) and a good dose of intellectual laziness mean that a large part of Italian public opinion, especially that most visible in the mainstream media, is incapable of...