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The transformation of cities is essential to respond to the climate crisis, and this not only because half of humanity (3.5 billion people) lives in cities and by 2030 this will become 60%, but also because urban settlements are important centers for the production of climate-altering emissions.Cities occupy just 3% of the earth's territory but they are responsible 60-80% of energy consumption and 75% of CO emissions2, as well as 70% of greenhouse gas emissions.If we want to achieve a real energy transition, many things will have to change. Starting from these considerations, within Horizon Europe the mission has been defined:reach the number of 100 cities with zero climate impact by 2030.The cities involved, selected from 377 candidates, will have to bring forward the global climate neutrality goal to 2050 by 20 years.Among the selected urban centers there are 9 Italian capitals:Bergamo, Bologna, Florence, Milan, Padua, Parma, Prato, Rome, Turin. The mission will also involve c...

There are those who defined it as a "vexatious limit", those who spoke of a "demagogic proposal", those who instead presented it as "a new idea of ​​civilization".In recent days the debate has heated up on cities30, where the speed limit for all vehicles is set at 30 kilometers per hour:it is a new model that has already taken hold in many cities around the world, and which is now also appearing in Italy.To become the first major Italian city at 30 kilometers per hour was Bologna, which in 2022 approved the address lines for the implementation of the plan:the checks began on Tuesday 16 January, and with them the controversies.“I remember well that the first objections to the city30 were that 'the limits will not be enforced anyway', but if the controls are announced the Punic wars will break out”, said the city councilor Simona Larghetti, who had already worked on the first campaign since 2014 on zones 30.“Only in a coun...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. 2023 will be remembered as the hottest year ever, the year of extreme weather events, heat waves, droughts, devastating fires, floods, the year of the criminalization of climate activists and one of the United Nations Climate Change most controversial ever he brought at the beginning of the end of the era of fossil fuels, without however putting their gradual elimination on paper. The agreement reached at COP28 and our future In early 2023, the International Energy Agency (IEA) spoke peak oil, gas and coal consumption will be exceeded for the first time before 2030.“It's not a question of 'if', but 'how soon' - and the sooner it happens, the better for all of us,” said Fatih Birol, executive director of the IEA.According to a scenario proposed by the International Energy Agency, based on the policies declared by the governments of various states around the wo...

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....