Cambiamenti Climatici

In Italy the National Plan for Adaptation to Climate Change has been approved.It took almost seven years and four governments, but in the end the Bel Paese also equipped itself with an indispensable tool for address the consequences of the climate crisis.The news of the approval was given by the Ministry of the Environment itself, explaining that the main objective of the Floor is to "provide a national framework for the implementation of actions aimed at reducing the risks deriving from climate change to the minimum possible, improving the adaptive capacity of socio-economic and natural systems, as well as taking advantage of any opportunities that arise will be able to present themselves with the new climatic conditions".The text was therefore officially adopted, albeit with a delay, but whether it is actually implemented is a different matter.The risk is that the Strategy you just stay on paper.For the moment, in fact, few of the planned actions have a corresponding f...

Italy will continue to subsidize international projects to extract fossil fuels with 1.2 billion euros, thus betraying the "Glasgow Declaration", the agreement made in 2021 during the United Nations COP26 on climate, with which Italy and Another 38 countries and financial institutions have committed to ending public subsidies for fossil fuels by the end of 2022. The “Glasgow Declaration” was launched on November 4, 2021 during the day dedicated to the theme of energy COP26 held in England, the XXVI Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in which the leaders of all the countries of the world meet to decide on the guidelines to be undertaken to respect theParis Agreement Of limit the growth of the global average temperature within 1.5 degrees. According to oneanalyses published in September by Oil Change International, a research organization specializing in monitoring the fossil fuel industry, some countries...

In a historic hearing, small island nations disproportionately affected by the climate crisis in a sense took on countries which release more greenhouse gas emissions.A one-of-a-kind climate justice case that took place in the court of Hamburg, Germany.The recurring nations – including Bahamas, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Antigua and Barbuda – in detail, they asked to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to determine whether carbon dioxide emissions are absorbed by the marine environment can be considered pollution.As one of the largest carbon sinks on the planet, the ocean absorbs 25% of carbon dioxide emissions, captures 90% of the heat generated by these emissions and produces half of the world's oxygen.However, the excess carbon dioxide produced by industrial activities has already caused many imbalances, including high acidification of waters and the consequent negative impact on marine biodiversity. Small island nations, gathered in the Small Island States Commissio...

The deep, light-free zone of the ocean, located between 200 and 1,000 meters below the surface, is surprisingly poor in iron, to the point of limiting the growth of bacteria, which, however, they compensate by producing molecules that facilitate their absorption from the surrounding water:this is what emerges from new research led by scientists from the University of South Florida, subjected to peer review and published in the prestigious scientific journal Nature.The authors explained that the experiment could revolutionize our understanding of microbial processes in the deep oceans and, above all, provide new estimates and parameters regarding carbon uptake by the oceans, which strongly depends on bacterial activity and is essential for mitigating climate change. The analyzed region, called “twilight zone”, is characterized by the fact that sunlight cannot penetrate, thus creating a dark and cold environment.The lack of sunlight therefore limits photosynthesis and, conseq...