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
The observed changes in climate already have impacts on ecosystems, the economy and on human health in Europe. Risk assessment and regional adaptation strategies need to take in account the role of internal climate variability as its weight over Europe is large with respect to other regions in the world.Read More
Cities have not been designed with a human-centered view: city planning follows economic interests, where buildings, traffic circulation, companies and industries are on a higher hierarchical level. What are nature-based solutions and what can they do to help cities become more climate resilient?Read More
Access to schooling is not always guaranteed and more and more frequently this is caused by climate change. Climate education, though, represents, in its different forms, a very powerful weapon in the fight against climate change: this is why it is fundamental that the right to education be guaranteed. All things considered, the climate crisis is an education crisis. Read More
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