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The first hearing was held on the morning of February 16th climatic cause brought against the Italian fossil multinational ENI, Cassa Depositi e Prestiti and Ministry of Economy and Finance.The accusations were made last May by 12 citizens and by the organizations Greenpeace Italia and ReCommon.The six-legged dog, in particular, was taken to court for "the damage caused and future damage resulting from climate change, to which he has contributed with his conduct in recent decades, continuing to invest in fossil fuels".The objective of the organizations is to force ENI to undergo a profound review of its industrial strategy with the aim of reducing emissions deriving from its activities. by at least 45% by 2030 and compared to 2020 levels.Furthermore, environmentalists demand that the Ministry of Economy and Finance "be obliged to adopt a climate policy that guides its participation in society in line with the Paris Agreement".The associations are confident that the...

The inhabitants of the Akbelen forest, in southwestern Turkey, are not giving up.They literally cling to trees, with the intent of protect them from deforestation which the Turkish company YK Energy, close to the Government, would like to complete.A land of approximately 780 acres which, if it were not for the obstinacy of the citizens, would have already been razed to the ground - as has happened in the last 35 years to 8 villages in the area - to allow an existing coal mine to grow even bigger .A tenacity that did not stop even under the blows of the batons and tear gas, tools that the Turkish gendarmerie used in an attempt to remove the activists. For the last 2 years, brave locals, both young & old, have put their bodies on the line to defend the forest's century old trees.Now they are being met with batons and tear gas by Turkish gendarmerie who are protecting the interests of the coal industry, and not local people. pic.twitter.com/urRJfoISoY — Beyond Fossil Fuels (@B...

It is often believed that energy from petroleum sources is much cheaper than renewable sources:a belief that forgets a non-negligible detail, that of the enormous public subsidies that extractive activities and the multinationals that lead them receive from states in the form of direct or indirect financing.This river of money continues to flow, and indeed, in 2022 - despite the much vaunted green transition - it set a new record.In fact, in the past year, only the G20 countries spent 1.4 trillion dollars to finance fossil fuels.The enormous figure was estimated by a relationship of the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), adding direct subsidies, investments by state-owned enterprises and loans by public financial institutions.According to the data collected, the twenty largest economies in the world have far exceeded the amount spent on fossil fuels in previous years, spending more than double compared to 2019. At the time, moreover, the "energy...