Cambiamento climatico

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. “Act now or it will be too late.”The final part of the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), he threw yet another warning.Always the same, almost a litany.Heard, also repeated by political leaders but which does not turn into immediate actions.These are diluted, however, in the complex compromises between politics, industrial groups, energy companies and markets, without considering the economic and social repercussions of the energy transition. Climate Conferences are a mirror of these complex relationships of force:the first week to say that there isn't much time, the second - that of political negotiations - to explain that time is needed.And while we spend our lovely Sundays at home discussing washable paints, demonstration actions and urban decoration, the IPCC "Synthesis report" tells everyone that what we have before us is the last window of...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. The idea of ​​doing a weekly round-up on the climate crisis was born in the wake of the climate newsletter Guardian which every week publishes data on carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, an indicator that tells us the state of the climate crisis and the health of our planet.This week, the atmospheric concentration of CO2, the greenhouse gas primarily responsible for global warming, exceeded 424 parts per million (ppm) for the first time.In recent days it had already exceeded 423.More than half of the CO2 produced by human activities, from the Industrial Revolution to today, was released in the atmosphere since 1990.Unfortunately, this data is not newsworthy and is not reflected in the climate policies of governments, whose actions to cut emissions are regularly deferred over time in the name of energy security (and to guarantee the difficult compromises required by the ecological transition).An...

Based on preliminary data provided by three meteorological agencies (Japan, United States, European Union), the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) established that the first week of July was the hottest ever recorded since temperatures have been recorded .And 2023 is increasingly becoming the year with the highest temperatures ever. The impacts of record heat have been felt around the world.After heat waves in China and the United States and drought in Spain, above-average temperatures were recorded in India, Iran and Canada, while extreme heat in Mexico caused more than 100 deaths.Last week in Adrar, Algeria, there was the hottest night ever in Africa, with temperatures not dropping below 39.6°C.Meanwhile, Nigeria is preparing to face another series of dangerous floods. In recent days we have seen images from northern Spain of people desperately clinging to their cars submerged by flash floods caused by heavy rain.In Japan, one person died and hundreds of thousands were as...

“After years of tenacious efforts, the sky in our country is bluer, the land is greener, the water is clearer, the colors of our country's many mountains and rivers are more vivid.”Whether we're talking about the environment or the economy, China's narratives around its environmental efforts are not short of poetry.On Wednesday, July 18, Washington's climate envoy, John Kerry, prepared to leave Beijing after three days of meetings without concrete results.In those hours, in another room of the capital, Chinese President Xi Jinping he pronounced his closing speech at the National Conference on Ecological and Environmental Protection.As many expected, 72 hours were not enough to mend a dialogue on the climate that both powers like to mention without however realizing their intentions. However, the reopening of dialogue between the two countries could in itself be good news, as underlined also from Kerry:“We had very frank conversations, we came here to break new ground.”It's clear w...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. In recent months the main Italian media have dedicated less space to the environmental issue, in the meantime the advertisements of polluting companies have doubled and the climate crisis is described as if it had no culprits, demonstrating the influence exercised by the fossil fuel industry on the world of information. This is what emerges from the new relationship that Greenpeace Italia commissioned from the Pavia Observatory, a research institute specialized in communication analysis.The study examined, in the period between September and December 2022, how the climate crisis was reported by the five most widely circulated national newspapers (Corriere della Sera, Republic, Il Sole 24 Ore, Future, The Press), from the evening news programs of Rai, Mediaset and La7 and from a sample of in-depth television programmes. The research completes the monitoring of media coverage of climate change...