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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...

Since the early 1970s, the Italian oil and gas giant ENI has been aware of the huge damage caused by fossil fuels to the planet's climate.This is what the second report attests ENI Knew, recently published by Greenpeace Italy And ReCommon.The organizations authoring the report have in fact examined publications that they already contained in libraries and archives, including those of ENI itself obvious indicators on the climate risks linked to the growing consumption of oil and gas.Which did not, however, stop the action of the multinational. The document remember how, already in 1969, the company had entrusted one of its study centres, the Institute for Studies on Economic Development and Technical Progress (ISVET), the task of creating a technical-economic investigation on environmental matters, entitled “Public intervention against pollution;evaluation of the costs and economic benefits connected to a project to eliminate the main forms of air and water pollution in Italy"...