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...

They are our future, the future of mobility, with a fundamental role for the necessary ecological transition, or "they are madness that has no environmental, economic, social, industrial explanations", as claimed by the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Matteo Salvini? One thing is certain.Since 2035 it will no longer be possible to purchase new petrol and diesel cars within EU countries.Car manufacturers will have to reduce the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions of new cars sold by 100%, with the aim of encouraging the transition to the sale of electric cars. Yet the transition to electric cars is encountering a certain resistance, not only in public opinion but also among those who should support and accompany this transition.Always Minister Salvini he said that electric cars "are rubbish from Europe that is giving a huge gift to China". His position is not isolated. In short, even on electric cars the debate has been polarized, especially by those who, in t...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. The climate crisis is a fact, as is yours anthropic origin:The relationship of the 2021 IPCC showed that the increase in temperature compared to the pre-industrial age, thanks to empirical research and numerical simulations, depends mostly on human activity. Yet still today, in one mixture of ignorance and bad faith, there is no shortage of inroads in public opinion and politics to discredit the efforts of scientists, activists and a part of the ruling class who are pushing for an ecological transition, both from a legislative point of view and from the point of view of electoral consensus.One of the arguments used in Italy and abroad by the conjunction of climate deniers and inactivists is the one according to which the climate transition it would be ridden from the left to impose dirigiste and statist policies, motivated more by hatred for the free market than by science. The sca...