Deforestazione

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. The world is racing "on the highway that leads straight to climate hell with its foot pressed on the accelerator". He didn't mince words the Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, on the opening day of the United Nations Climate Conference which is being held this year in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, to define the gravity of the situation facing the planet and give meaning the urgency of the actions to be taken.Looming in the background are the war in Ukraine, the energy crisis, the rising cost of living and growing global tensions. “We need a climate solidarity pact between developed and emerging economies:either they work together to make a historic deal that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and put the world on a low-carbon path, or we will have failure, which will mean climate collapse and catastrophe,” Guterres added.“It is...

15.7 million.That's how many trees there are in Scotland was shot down, from 2000 to today, to make way for the development of wind farms in the country.This was made known by the Scottish Government's Rural Affairs Secretary himself, who stated that he had initiated actual tree felling plans in order to build turbines for the generation of clean energy on public lands.The paradox is that the controversial initiative is part of the administration's plans to make Scotland zero emissions within the next decade.In fact, the government aims to add around 20,000 turbines in the coming years so as to be able to generate a total of 20 Gigawatts (GW) of clean energy.An ambitious strategy in terms of reducing climate-changing emissions which, however, does not explain and does not justify the need to reduce, on balance, the equivalent of a real forest.Since the beginning of the current century, with an average of 2,000 trees per hectare, the equivalent of at least 7,858 hectares has been defore...

Seventy-one pines which have been providing shade and greenery to the main avenue of Lido di Savio for more than half a century and which now the Municipality of Ravenna would like to demolish it to make room for the new maritime park, which in reality has little to do with "park". it mainly involves redoing the asphalt by removing the trees. This is the project that the citizens of the small seaside village in Romagna are fighting against, who have gathered in a committee to ask the administration to save the trees. The felling of the pine trees is part of the major project of Maritime Park  which involves all 9 Ravenna beaches:«the largest redevelopment intervention with tourist and environmental purposes in the history of Ravenna» to use the words of mayor Michele de Pascale.The total cost was 17 million, financed largely with Pnrr funds.It mainly involves redeveloping the streets, creating new car parks, new cycle paths  and new access routes to the...