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While as humanity we increasingly feel the consequences and impacts of climate change in our daily lives, we have been discussing for weeks the book by General Vannacci, best-selling in Italy, which defines the climate crisis is a "bogeyman" and claims that the tons of CO2 that we emit are a good "because they allow us to be born in a hospital". All this in the same weeks in which Copernicus, the European climate change service, he said that in 2023 we had the hottest summer on record.Heat waves, floods and fires have not abandoned Europe and North America.In the Alps, freezing point was reached at 5,328 meters (and it is another negative record).The storm that hit eastern Libya is news in recent days. There is currently talk of over 5 thousand deaths.Phenomena of this type are intensifying as the planet warms. The climate crisis is getting worse and not newsworthy And while it's still there who tries to insinuate doubts And question the anthropic origin of c...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. Last week, a summit was held in Paris on how to enable low-income countries most exposed to the impacts of the climate crisis to grow their economies by reducing their dependence on fossil fuels [we'll talk about it in detail later]. What can the 54 countries of the African continent do to contribute to the decarbonisation of the world?Can Africa make a leap in quality and combine energy transition and economic growth?These are the questions that the journalist of New York Times, Somini Sengupta, he addressed to Wanjira Mathai, director general for Africa and global partnerships at the World Resources Institute (WRI), and Rebekah Shirley, senior environmental researcher and deputy director for Africa at WRI. These two simple questions opened up deeper questions having to do with the financial sustainability of the energy transition, the capacity of the electricity grid and...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. Is called "The Just Cause”.It is the campaign that promotes the legal initiative that ReCommon and Greenpeace and twelve Italian citizens - coming from areas already affected by the impacts of climate change, such as coastal erosion due to rising sea levels, drought, melting glaciers – have filed against ENI, the first of its kind against a private company in Italy.The two organizations and the citizens involved they filed a civil lawsuit against the energy company "for the damages suffered and future, both financial and otherwise, resulting from climate change to which ENI has significantly contributed with its conduct in recent decades, despite being aware of it". In short, according to ReCommon and Greenpeace, although ENI has been aware since 1970 that the combustion of fossil fuels is the main cause of climate change and the "catastrophic" r...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. Nord Stream, according to the Swedish prosecutor's office, a group linked to a state was behind the sabotage of the gas pipeline Update April 7, 2023: The Swedish prosecutor who is investigating the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipeline he stated that the "main scenario" prefigures that a "state actor" may be behind the attack, thus casting doubt on recent theories that hypothesized the responsibility of an independent group. The type of explosive used in the attacks excludes a "large part of possible perpetrators", prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist told the Reuters. According to a United Nations report, the three underwater explosions that severed the gas connection between Russia and Germany northeast and southeast of the Baltic Sea island of Bornholm on September 26, 2022 were equivalent to the power of several hundreds of kilograms of explosives.Swedish...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. “Loss and Damage” is the term used to describe how climate change is already causing severe and, in many cases, irreversible impacts around the world – particularly in vulnerable communities. As he explains to Carbon Brief the Prof.Saleemul Huq, director of the International Center for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) and pioneer of loss and damage research: “The term ‘loss and damage’ refers to the impacts of human-induced climate change affecting people around the world.Damages refer to things that can be repaired, such as damaged homes, while losses refer to things that have been completely lost and will not come back, such as human lives.” “We are losing infrastructure, agricultural land – and we are losing what we can call a hope of having sustainable economic growth and a future for all,” adds Ineza Umuhoza Gra...