A transformation of the economy is no longer an option but an indispensable choice. That’s what emerges from the Emission Gap Report 2022. by Roberto Barbiero, APPA – In the center of the image there is a small window that is closing, revealing a landscape made of flowers, water and woods. All around a gloomy […]Read More
by Roberto Barbiero and Lavinia Laiti (APPA) / translation by Lavinia Laiti – “We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot still on the accelerator”. Thus the Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres declared at the opening of Cop27, which officially kicked off yesterday in Sharm El-Sheikh. To understand the seriousness […]Read More
July 19 marked the start of WebValley, the Bruno Kessler Foundation's international data science camp aimed at students who have just finished the fourth grade. Read More
In October 2018, storm Vaia hit Northern Italy. Its wind damaged 42 million trees. The economic and socio-cultural damaged caused was extensive. Born from this disaster, the start-up Vaia Wood took things in its hands and started producing value from and for the damaged forest.Read More
Piero Lionello and Gustavo Naumann are two climate experts and members of the IPCC Working Group II, which published a new report on climate on 28 February. The two scientists have issued a document explaining the risks of climate change in Europe and in the Mediterranean region.Read More
The IPCC Working Group II has released its new report on February 28. If global warming should increase the average temperature more than 1.5°C, it will be very difficult to have a development paradigm resilient enough to climate. It will be impossible in some regions of the Earth, should the global warming hit the plus 2°C.Read More
COP26 also served as the third meeting point of the Conference of Parties to the Paris Agreement. The comparative analysis of the drafts its final decision and the Cover Decision itself show how its negotiations evolved and what decisions were difficult to agree on.Read More
The negotiations at the COp26 have eventually led to an agreement. However, world leaders have again missed the opportunity to commit to significantly cut emissions during the current decade and to reach climate neutrality by 2050. Read More
Here are some reflections on the complexity, explosions of life and dull and exclusive side of one of the most disorienting experiences I have ever had. Read More
Our food system, essentially omnivorous, is not sustainable any more: it is responsible for 37% of the total greenhouse emissions. Plant-based nutrition is a great alternative and a choice which is more and more necessary: many are its advantages. What if this change could be an opportunity rather than a limitation?Read More