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Morphological factors have a significant impact, but do not fully explain the poor air quality of the Po Valley

The agreement between EU institutions to set the new parameters necessary to reduce and eliminate smog

The mayor of Milan disputes the findings of the Swiss company IQ Air:«Are we the third most polluted city in the world?They are not serious"

The association obtained and analyzed data from some regional public bodies:"The problem is bigger than we thought"

Worldwide, only 57 companies belonging to the energy and cement sectors are responsible for 80% of climate-changing gas emissions.Among these, there is also the Italian Eni.This was demonstrated, with data in hand, by research based on the "Carbon Majors" platform - a database created in 2013 by Richard Heede of the Climate Accountability Institute in the USA -, carried out by the London-based non-profit think tank InfluenceMap.The statistics cover a very broad time period, ranging from 1854 to 2022, but the report places a particular focus on the period between 2016, when governments around the world signed the Paris climate agreements, until 2022.In fact, in this phase alone, 251 billion tons of CO2 were released into the atmosphere. Historically, investor-owned companies account for 31% of all emissions tracked by the database, with America's Chevron and ExxonMobil and Britain's BP taking center stage.State-owned companies are linked to 33% of the total database:here Saudi...