Cambiamento climatico

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. From West Nile fever to asthma, climate change is exacerbating infectious diseases and hampering our ability to fight them.This is what emerges from research published in the magazine Nature Climate Change in August, according to which more than half of the infectious diseases known to impact humans have been made more dangerous by climate change. Diseases such as hepatitis, cholera, malaria and many others are spreading faster, affecting large segments of the population around the world and becoming more severe due to climate-related events.And it's not just transmissibility that's increasing:Climate change has impacts on health, immunity and access to medical care. “The global health response to these diseases will have to be massive,” he commented Erik Franklin, associate professor at the University of Hawaii and one of the study's authors.“It's more p...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels will increase by less than 1% this year (much less than the nearly 4% increase seen last year) thanks to the rapid growth of renewable energy and electric vehicles that has outpaced the demand for coal.That's it emerges from one new analysis of the International Energy Agency (IEA), according to which the increase of almost 300 million tonnes (MtCO2) was much smaller than the increase of almost 2 billion tonnes expected for 2021. However, demand for oil is expected to grow more than any other fossil fuel in 2022, with an increase in CO2 emissions of around 180 million tonnes, largely driven by the transport sector, after the easing of restrictions related to the pandemic.The aviation sector contributes around three-quarters of the increase in emissions from oil use, particularly due to increased international air travel, although avi...

“We are convinced that biofuels can also fall into the category of neutral fuels in terms of overall CO2 balance and contribute to the progressive decarbonisation of the sector.We will therefore work, as part of the procedures for approving the legislative acts indicated by the Commission, to also have biofuels considered among neutral fuels in terms of CO2". The comment by the Minister of the Environment and Energy Security Gilberto Pichetto Fratin tries to mask the disappointment of the Meloni government which has to take another European bitter pill on biofuels. In fact, on 28 March, the Energy Council of the European Union, in which the government representatives of the 27 member states were present, approved the regulation setting stricter CO2 emissions performance standards for new cars and vans.In application of Fif for 55 measurement package, with which the European Union intends to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030 compared to 1990 levels, the...