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The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. “My generation betrayed Greta Thunberg's.”The words are of Pete Betts, “a legend of climate diplomacy and of the United Nations Climate Conferences”, as Simon Sharpe, a former British civil servant, defined him in his recent book Five Times Faster.  Whereas Betts was the UK Government's International Director for Climate and Energy for ten years, lead negotiator at COPs for the European Union and for the United Kingdom at the United Nations on climate, and has managed international climate finance for a worth approximately 3.5 billion euros, his words are more than a bitter personal observation, they are a political message that calls the international community into question.They almost sound like an admission of the collective failure of a generation of political leaders, journalists and social partners, incapable of grasping the crucial importance of...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. Is called "The Just Cause”.It is the campaign that promotes the legal initiative that ReCommon and Greenpeace and twelve Italian citizens - coming from areas already affected by the impacts of climate change, such as coastal erosion due to rising sea levels, drought, melting glaciers – have filed against ENI, the first of its kind against a private company in Italy.The two organizations and the citizens involved they filed a civil lawsuit against the energy company "for the damages suffered and future, both financial and otherwise, resulting from climate change to which ENI has significantly contributed with its conduct in recent decades, despite being aware of it". In short, according to ReCommon and Greenpeace, although ENI has been aware since 1970 that the combustion of fossil fuels is the main cause of climate change and the "catastrophic" r...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. The greater intensity and frequency of extreme meteorological phenomena are now causing enormous damage at all latitudes and unfortunately the death of many people caught unprepared by events for which we were not prepared.We have also seen it in Italy, recently in Emilia-Romagna twice within a few weeks, and last September in the Marche.But early warning systems and better management of the devastating effects of these catastrophic events can save many human lives.At least according to what one reports study by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Floods in Emilia-Romagna:an announced disaster and because climate change is also involved According to the report, in the countries most exposed to the consequences of the climate crisis, floods, storms and fires have caused trillions of dollars in economic damage over the last half century, but the number of human victims has f...

PNIEC, RePowerEu, Mattei plan:for Italy, the summer of 2023 could be remembered as the season in which the energy of the future was designed.First there pandemic and then there gas price crisis, the war in Ukraine and a sharp increase in inflation have made a systemic update of the Italian energy model necessary.This complex historical period must then be accompanied by new environmental objectives sanctioned by the European Union in recent years, who wants to place himself at the head of the ecological transition.  Thus the Meloni government found itself having to prepare, since its inauguration in October 2022, a series of plans and projects with which to adapt to the new balances between now and 2030, with the aim of achieving climate neutrality by 2050. “The ecological transition and environmental sustainability must go hand in hand with social and economic sustainability”, he reiterated recently the Prime Minister at the Assolombarda assembly to reassure the business world....

«To obtain cost savings due to the adaptation of safety criteria, the company failed to install double bottoms in the tanks», explain the investigators