Notizie

1.5°C warming is still possible!
The assessment reports published in time for the COP28 starting 1 December were all but reassuring. A week before the 70,000 participants converged on Dubai UN Secretary-General António Guterres was briefing reporters in New York after seeing for himself over the weekend the “profoundly shocking” speed at which ice is melting in Antarctica – three times faster than the rate in the early 1990s. New figures reveal that sea ice…
La devastazione dei fondali marini
La Norvegia ha intenzione di usare macchinari giganti per squarciare il fondale oceanico nell’Artico… vandalizzando uno degli ultimi luoghi incontaminati del nostro pianeta e distruggendo aree vitali per le balene e innumerevoli altre specie. Si chiama estrazione mineraria in acque profonde e abbiamo uno spiraglio di opportunità per fermarla prima che inizi: possiamo proteggere nell’immediato una porzione di fondale marino grande quanto il Regno Unito e in seguito farci sentire con forza per vietare a livello…
NEWSLETTER: Disaster preparedness saves lives
Last month, we called attention to slow progress or even retrogressive steps with the Sustainable Development Goals. At half point it looks like we’ll be missing most of the 169 targets underpinning the 17 goals. This is despite of 7,777 actions registered in their pursuit on the UN website. In September, the UN General Assembly endorsed the SDGs again at the end of the week dedicated to the mid-term progress…