Deforestazione

In recent months there have been numerous protests by activists criticizing the damage caused by the expansion of the plant

The actual implementation of the measure, one of the most ambitious in the European green agenda, will begin at the end of 2024.But eight governments protest

Thanks to the political choices made by the governments of Brazil and Colombia last year, the deforestation of the Amazon has definitely slowed down.The decisions of the government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva have in fact recorded a 36% decrease in the loss of primary forests in 2023 (the lowest level since 2015), while in Colombia, under the presidency of Gustavo Petro, the loss of primary forests halved (-49%) compared to the previous year.Similar data demonstrate how environmental protection constitutes in all respects a viable political choice, and how the decision to pursue these objectives can lead, in just one year, to achieving extraordinary results. In the first 9 months of 2023, deforestation in the Colombian region is collapsed of 70% compared to the same period of the previous year, when the trend was already decreasing compared to 2021 (-21%).The government of Gustavo Petro, which took office in June 2022, had made environmental protection one of the cruc...

In the last six years, 800 million trees have been cut down to satisfy the world's hunger for meat

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. The idea of ​​doing a weekly round-up on the climate crisis was born in the wake of the climate newsletter Guardian which every week publishes data on carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, an indicator that tells us the state of the climate crisis and the health of our planet.This week, the atmospheric concentration of CO2, the greenhouse gas primarily responsible for global warming, exceeded 424 parts per million (ppm) for the first time.In recent days it had already exceeded 423.More than half of the CO2 produced by human activities, from the Industrial Revolution to today, was released in the atmosphere since 1990.Unfortunately, this data is not newsworthy and is not reflected in the climate policies of governments, whose actions to cut emissions are regularly deferred over time in the name of energy security (and to guarantee the difficult compromises required by the ecological transition).An...