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If produced with clean sources, hydrogen represents one of the best solutions for reducing emissions from the most energy-intensive (and polluting) industries.

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. It took a red spot on the European Space Agency (ESA) cartography and a podium placement in a ranking of little relevance, as if it were an Olympics competition, to make the poor air quality of the Po Valley news.Which isn't so much news, it's everyday life in certain periods of the year and should be newsworthy due to its periodicity.But it is enough to make people talk about a systemic issue once again in terms of emergency and inevitability and trigger the angry reaction of mayors and the usual brawl of comments which in the end only generate noise and confusion, shifting attention from the real crux of the matter :namely that air pollution is “an important public health issue that seriously threatens the well-being of people and our environment”, as stated just last October by Maria Neira, Director of the Environment, Climate Change and Health Department of the W...

Of Elena Colli, Matteo Spini, Jacopo Targa* “We die in Milan”, read the banners of one of the many demonstrations that have taken place in the city in recent months.Unfortunately, 2024 also opened with tragic news:Ivano Calzighetti, 37 years old, was hit and killed by a person driving a car while he was returning home by bicycle. According to open data on the victims of road accidents in Milan, in 2023 29 people lost their lives on the streets of the Milanese municipality.If you look at the number of collisions involving bicycles in the city, you notice that in 2022 the highest number of all the large Italian municipalities was recorded in Milan. For this reason, Milanese cycling activism has attracted a lot of attention in recent times:the numerous actions implemented to request greater safety on the streets of Milan - garrisons, human cycle paths, traffic blocks, "illegal cycle paths" - have attracted the attention of the media national and sometimes as well international....

This was demonstrated by a study by the State University of Milan in collaboration with the University of Lausanne

The collective celebrated its second year of life with coordinated action in several countries