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Ikea returns to the center of the storm, after a final investigation by Greenpeace following which the environmental organization launched an unprecedented petition:“Ikea says that the home is the place where everything begins”, but we must prevent “old forests from ending up in our homes”.This is the slogan that revolves around the new collection of signatures of the environmentalist organization, founded on a latter investigation which notes how seven Romanian companies that work and produce furniture for the Swedish multinational appear to obtain their wood from some of the last old-growth forests in Europe, located in the country's Carpathians.These, specifically, are forests that should be particularly protected because not affected by human beings since ancient times, and therefore equipped with characteristics similar to ancient primary forests.Although they are in theory protected by EU legislation, the Romanian forests and their probable exploitati...

In Brazil, the police launched a large operation (called Operation Greenwashing), the largest of its kind ever built in the country, to dismantle "a criminal organization" that for over a decade allegedly sold carbon credits from illegally invaded areas for a total value of 34 million dollars (approximately 180 million reais).The operations are the result of an investigation lasting over a year which shows the links between REDD+ projects and a scam for the recycling of illegally obtained timber.At the center of the investigations are the Fortaleza Ituxi, Unitor and Evergreen project, all related to the Ituxi Group, one of the largest carbon credit projects in the Brazilian Amazon.The group is chaired by Ricardo Stoppe, whose suspicious activities had already ended up at the center of a journalistic investigation.The credits sold by the group were purchased not only by various Brazilian companies, but also by some international ones such as Toshiba, Spotify and Boeing. Stoppe...

The Nardò Porsche track is back in the news, but this time it attracts the attention of German territories, moving onto an increasingly international stage.On the afternoon of Tuesday 5 March in Stuttgart several environmental associations organized a sit-in protest against the German production company, highlighting how the expansion of the test track through the so-called "projectNardò Technical Center” (NTC) could lead to a real environmental disaster.To lend support to environmental associations, which among other things also have harvest beyond 80,000 signatures Even the municipal administration of the city home to the important car brand appears to have come out against the construction of the work, requesting a meeting with representatives of Porsche.Meanwhile in Italy the silence of the large movements to protect the environment is strident, but their absence is filled by smaller signatures and local movements, which have presented a exposed to the TAR...

Deforestation in bigger Earth's rainforest decreased by 22% as of July 31, 2023 compared to the previous year.This was revealed by the analyzes of the data collected and processed by the Brazilian National Space Research Institute (INPE), which reported that deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has reached 9,001 square kilometers, or share below 10,000 units for the first time since 2018.From July to October 2023, the updated data reveal that the deforested area suffered a 52% decrease compared to the previous year and, furthermore, according to estimates, the decrease in tree loss has reduced the country's greenhouse gas emissions by 7.5%, a fact that is anything but insignificant if you consider that Brazil is the sixth largest producer of emissions in the world.Marina Silva, Brazilian Environment Minister, said:«Behind all this there was a political decision.When we change this reality we are changing the image of the country." Deforestation in the Amazon (left and red)...

Cutting down trees with the promise of replanting them.This is what is foreseen by the plan drawn up by the German car manufacturer Porsche which, in agreement with the Puglia Region, he announced the felling of a large portion of forest to expand the complex of car tracks (the Nardò Technical Center) located in Salento, which he uses to test cars to sell.A construction that will involve the expropriation - one of the largest ever carried out recently in Puglia - of 351 hectares of land, belonging to 134 different owners in the Nardò area, in the province of Lecce, in the name of the "public utility" of the project.A denomination without which the public administration would not have been able to take possession of the properties. Porsche track expansion project \ Fonte Italia Nostra A story that has raised doubts, fears and discontent since August 10th - the day the agreement was signed - for various reasons.First of all, as regards some of the farmers and bree...