Environment

Climate Change

Rinnovabili • Climate Tipping Points: Prevention Costs Four Times Less
Climate Change
With climate tipping points, prevention costs four times less than remediation

Exceeding climate tipping points multiplies the costs of combating climate change. A study reveals that acting early is four times less expensive than correcting course later

Rinnovabili • Peak greenhouse gas emissions in China: no later than 2025
Climate Change
China will reach its peak greenhouse…

Coal, renewables, and electric cars fuel experts' optimism. But China will miss…

Rinnovabili • State of the Cryosphere 2024: Only 1.5°C Minimizes the Damage
Climate Change
The Future of the Cryosphere in…

This is the warning issued by the State of the Cryosphere 2024…


Rinnovabili • Climate Commitments by Companies at COP29
Climate Change
COP29, the Private Sector and the Climate Challenge: Where Do We Stand?

The Elephant in the Room Remains the Exit from Fossil Fuels. While more companies are drafting…

Rinnovabili • In 20 years, dozens of
Climate Change
In 20 years, dozens of “impossible” extreme events have occurred

Carbon Brief updates the global map of attribution studies, scientific works that quantify the role of…

Rinnovabili • Nationally Determined Contributions 2035: EU must aim for -78%
Climate Change
The EU must cut emissions by 78% by 2035 to meet the…

The Climate Action Tracker calculates the targets that the world's largest polluters need to set in…

Rinnovabili • Global warming increase: still true +2.7°C
Climate Change
We have wasted 3 years: we are always heading towards a 2.7°C…

The Climate Action Tracker updates projections on global warming increase by 2100. Since 2021, progress has…

Rinnovabili • Mediterranean increasingly warmer: +1°C in 25 years
Climate Change
Heating of the Mediterranean: In 25 years, the Tyrrhenian Sea has become…

The data collected from over 3,000 expendable bathythermographs deployed during 100 campaigns by Enea and INGV…

Rinnovabili • Article 6.4 of the Paris Agreement: Agreement Reached at COP29 in Baku
Climate Change
COP29, the agreement on the global carbon market is reached immediately

During the opening plenary session, the agreement on Article 6.4 of the Paris Agreement was approved.…

Rinnovabili • Shell wins in court: the basis for climate litigation worldwide collapses
Climate Change
Shell wins in court: the basis for climate litigation worldwide collapses

The Court of Appeal in The Hague has ruled in favor of the oil major, overturning…

Rinnovabili • Green growth: the world is moving too slowly toward decoupling
Environment
Decoupling too slow; half of the planet will not reach net zero…

The PIK Potsdam study analyzes the trend of decoupling GDP-emissions in 1,500 regions worldwide, which account…

Rinnovabili • Global warming record 2024
Climate Change
2024 will exceed 1.5°C of global warming

Compared to the pre-industrial era, October 2024 was 1.65°C above average. This year will almost certainly…

Rinnovabili • Anthropogenic climate change has worsened the flooding in Valencia
Climate Change
Anthropogenic climate change has worsened the flooding in Valencia

The World Weather Attribution analysis estimates that the global temperature increase has made events like this…

Rinnovabili • An unprecedented decrease: in 2023, Europe reduced emissions by 8.3%
Pollution
An unprecedented decrease: in 2023, Europe reduced emissions by 8.3%

Last year, greenhouse gas emissions in the EU dropped almost as much as during the pandemic,…

Rinnovabili • The 2024 edition of the Lancet Countdown outlines a noticeable worsening of indicators regarding the link between the climate crisis and health.
Climate Change
Climate and health, 2023 has brought us ‘concerning’ records

The 2024 edition of the Lancet Countdown outlines a noticeable worsening of indicators on the climate-health…