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For the first time in history, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has condemned a nation for failing to meet climate obligations.We are talking about Switzerland, which was notably condemned after an association made up of over 2,000 elderly women sued it for climate inaction.The ECHR, more specifically, condemned the Swiss State for violating Article 8 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights, i.e. the right to respect for private and family life, since it did not adopt adequate measures to mitigate the effects of climate change.A judgment which, by linking the protection of human rights to compliance with climate obligations, she is destined to do law.The ruling is, among other things, binding and has the potential to influence the law in the 46 countries of the Council of Europe, i.e. all those belonging to the European human rights jurisdiction.On the same day, the ECHR also expressed its opinion on two other climate justice cases, however, both of which...

The Italian multinational oil company ENI has announced its own industrial development plan for years to come.In particular, the six-legged dog plans to significantly increase the cash circulating in the company, up to 62 billion euros over the four-year plan.As a result, it also plans to increase its revenue even further.In all of this and in spite of the much vaunted energy transition, the central element will remain the exploration and production of fossil fuels.«Upstream production (the set of operational processes from which fossil production activity originates) – we read in the document – ​​is expected to grow at an average annual rate of 3-4% until 2027, extending this growth by a additional year compared to the previous Plan".In short, once again, an industrial strategy in stark contrast with the commitments made by Italy and by the state company itself for the containment of emissions, at least according to the logic, while ENI announces tha...

The Civil Court of Rome has stopped the first lawsuit initiated against the Italian State for failure to comply with the climate crisis.In fact, at first instance, the judges pronounced a sentence according to which the case, the result of the "Last Judgment" campaign - carried out by 203 appellants including associations and private citizens -, was inadmissible due to lack of jurisdiction.In our country, unlike what happens in other European states, there are no courts capable of expressing a verdict on this issue.The procedural process started after a complaint presented against the Italian State by 24 associations, 17 minors and 162 adults, who in the summer of 2021 joined forces to ask concrete actions to combat global warming.Now, following the Court's verdict, the campaign coordinators are promising battle, anticipating that they will challenge the decision. The appellants, in particular, they asked that the State could be required to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by...

A new one research revealed that carbon credits from reforestation projects they don't compensate most of the emissions released by industrial activities.An international group of scientists, in particular, examined 26 sites where so-called REDD+ projects to combat deforestation were implemented on three different continents.The main doubt, it emerged, is how developers calculate the impact of their projects, to the point that around 94% of the carbon credits deriving from these it would not represent a real mitigation of climate-changing emissions. REDD+ is short for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries.The idea is that the "monetization" of threatened forests through the issuance of carbon credits helps to avoid further increase in global temperature.In turn, the sale of these credits should generate an income stream to reinvest in forest conservation, which advocates say is critical to protecting not only the carbon that biom...