transizione ecologica

At the beginning of July the Sardinian regional council has approved a moratorium that blocks the authorization of new plants for the extraction of renewable energy.A decision, although judged timid and not very decisive in the terms in which it was adopted, which represents the first victory of a vast movement born and grown in recent months which defines itself as "against energy speculation" and against "the assault of multinationals" to the Sardinian territory.A movement that is not satisfied and demands that the already approved projects, which are filling Sardinia with wind and solar plants that will serve not to generate energy for the territory, but to make the region a center for energy exports, also be stopped towards mainland Italy and abroad.Also taking part in the protest are over 60 companies and guides dealing with sustainable and naturalistic tourism, who have sent a letter to explain the reasons for their protest.We have decided to publish it in ful...

Science has demonstrated, beyond any reasonable doubt, the anthropogenic impact on global temperature increases.According to the 2021 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, the temperature increase from 1850-1900 due to human activity is valued at around 1.1 degrees centigrade and that, even with rapid and large-scale interventions, it will take at least thirty years before the climate stabilizes. The question then shifts to the type of policies and behavioral changes necessary to reach climate targets and limit the temperature increase to between 1.5 and 2 °C by the end of the century, the limit threshold set by the Agreement reached at the Conference of United Nations Climate Change Report of 2015 and, beyond which, potentially irreversible turning points could be overcome, as shown in a report by the IPCC of 2018.To do this it is necessary to consider three aspects. The first is still the scientific one, monitoring the dynamics of climate phenomena and a...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. For the first time in the Atlantic Ocean a category 5 hurricane formed at the beginning of the summer and this is not a good sign for the rest of the year and our immediate future.This is the case of Beryl, the first major hurricane of a season that will arrive until late November, which went from tropical depression to storm and then to hurricane in the space of 48 hours.The speed with which Beryl transformed into a Category 5 hurricane is a bad sign for the Atlantic hurricane season which, fueled by increasingly rising ocean temperatures, is becoming more dangerous and unpredictable.So much so that, how underlines Simone Fant on Renewable Matter, some scientists are proposing to add an additional category – category 6 – to measure the intensity of hurricanes. “This early-season storm activity is breaking records set in 1933 and 2005, two of the most in...

It seems prehistoric but in 2015, at the time of COP21 and the Paris Agreements, among the commitments set to keep the increase in temperatures within 1.5 °C compared to the pre-industrial era there was also the allocation of 100 billion euros per year by the richest states towards the countries of the so-called south of the world. It was, and is, a key point in climate finance.As explains ECCO, the Italian climate think tank, “the term applies to financial resources dedicated to addressing climate change by all public and private actors from global to local scales, including international financial flows to developing countries to assist them in addressing climate change.” For Italy the main public instrument to pursue the objective of the Paris Agreements is the Italian Climate Fund:until 2026 it will have a total budget of 4.4 billion euros, in addition to 40 million euros per year from 2027 for non-repayable contributions and management expenses.Established w...

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...