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Eight thousand kilometers long and fifteen kilometers wide.These are the impressive measures of the Great Green Wall, a tree belt that the African Union is building in order to counter the advance of the desert.The ambitious project aims to cross the African continent horizontally.From Senegal to Djibouti, the tree-lined line will pass through 11 nations with the noble aim of combat environmental degradation and poverty in the region.The costs have been estimated at approximately 33 billion dollars, of which 14 have already been invested.More than ten years after the official launch of the project, approximately 20% of the route has been completed.According to several sources, however, the initiative is already changing things for the better.Because, to be honest, the Great Green Wall is not just a work aimed at mitigating the effects of climate change.More than a line, it is in fact a “restoration mosaic” which protects agriculture, offers jobs, promotes social cohesion an...

Lack of interventions to adapt the territory to extreme meteorological events, insufficient safety works with respect to hydrogeological instability, even increased land consumption.Following the severe flood in Emilia-Romagna, a heated debate arose on the interventions that could have avoided the flooding of tens of thousands of homes and the death of 15 people.Above all, we talked about lack of prevention, that is, what has not been done in recent years to make the population safe.And also of bad governance of the territory, or what has been done badly.Meanwhile, on Tuesday 23 May the Council of Ministers approved a law decree which allocates around two billion euros to deal with the emergency:the measure contains a series of indications for the population of the affected areas, including the suspension of the payment of taxes, contributions and energy utilities from 1 May to 31 August, the redundancy fund in derogation for all employees for up to 90 days, and an allowance lump...