Cambiamento climatico

The Princeton professor:the battles for the environment must be rethought by involving the populations who are victims of exploitation

In June, July and August, global temperatures were 0.69°C higher than the three-decade average

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. Fuel taxes, building incentives, energy efficiency regulations.We often hear experts, politicians, representatives of the industrial sector and citizens discussing which political and economic solutions are most advantageous and effective in combating global warming and in applying the so-called ecological transition. An action that has become almost an imperative since, almost 35 years ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its first report in which it found that human activities were causing a substantial increase in carbon dioxide concentrations ( CO₂) and other gases in the atmosphere, resulting in warming of the planet's temperatures.Since then there have been many United Nations Climate Conferences, governments and public awareness of the effects of the climate crisis and the need for decisive action has increased, and countries around...

A historic agreement and equally disappointing.COP28, the United Nations Climate Conference in Dubai, agrees with the climate movements:the climate crisis is the fossil fuel crisis.But the countries that signed the agreement do not follow through with this admission.A historic agreement, because for the first time fossil fuels are indicated as the main cause of the climate crisis;disappointing and devastating for the commitments made, or rather not made.With winners and losers. COP28:the transition begins, but with many concessions to the fossil fuel industry He wins the oil and gas industry who rejoices because there is no clear obligation to "abandon fossil fuels" and there are many loopholes in order to continue to exist;they win the United States and China, the world's two largest emitters that can continue to produce oil and build coal plants;wins Sultan Al Jaber, the president of COP28 and of the state oil company of the United Arab Emirates, which obtained an agreem...

“COP28:governments speak, the earth sinks."It is the slogan used by Extinction Rebellion on December 9, when activists staged a nonviolent protest action coordinated in five cities.Arrests immediately followed: 28, specifically, on charges of interruption of public service, private violence, unauthorized demonstration and spillage of dangerous substances.Five people were served with a 4-year expulsion order - which includes not being able to return to the municipality from which they are removed - and another three with a 48-hour urban warning - an administrative sanction with a removal order.The group's press office was also stopped and then accused. It is only the latest act of a progressive trend towards criminalization of dissent which we have been witnessing in recent years, and which is affecting climate activists in particular.Criminalization also happens when it comes to nonviolent protests, and it was the same in this case:yes, because what the newspapers defined as "envir...