perdita e danni

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. A “silent killer”.This is how doctors defined heat waves because they claim many more victims than most people realize.And they have impacts on bodies and mental health. According to the United Nations, 2.4 billion people worldwide are under threat by “increasingly severe heat waves, caused largely by a fossil fuel-induced climate crisis.” A study recently published on Nature Medicine found that in 2023 – the warmest year on record although scientists they predict that 2024 will soon take its place – heat waves, worsened by carbon dioxide pollution, have killed almost 50 thousand people in Europe.And the death rate would have been 80% higher if people had not adapted to rising temperatures over the past two decades.This means that efforts to adapt societies to heat waves are effective, explains to Guardian Elisa Gallo, environmental epid...

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...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. “Loss and Damage” is the term used to describe how climate change is already causing severe and, in many cases, irreversible impacts around the world – particularly in vulnerable communities. As he explains to Carbon Brief the Prof.Saleemul Huq, director of the International Center for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) and pioneer of loss and damage research: “The term ‘loss and damage’ refers to the impacts of human-induced climate change affecting people around the world.Damages refer to things that can be repaired, such as damaged homes, while losses refer to things that have been completely lost and will not come back, such as human lives.” “We are losing infrastructure, agricultural land – and we are losing what we can call a hope of having sustainable economic growth and a future for all,” adds Ineza Umuhoza Gra...