Environment

Rinnovabili • UN High Seas Treaty may take effect by January 2025
Climate Change
UN High Seas Treaty set to take effect in January 2026

In Nice, delegations from 120 countries, including more than 50 heads of state and government, gathered with the goal of saving the ailing ocean.

Rinnovabili • AI emissions up 150% at Big Tech firms
Climate Change
AI fuels 150% surge in indirect…

Amazon leads the ranking with a 182% increase in indirect emissions between…

Rinnovabili • Marine heatwaves 2024: record highs in the southwest Pacific
Climate Change
UN: record-breaking marine heatwaves in 2024…

Marine heatwaves 2024 scorched over 10% of global ocean surface, with record…


Rinnovabili • Climate change adaptation: 4 out of 10 EU projects are useless.
Climate Change
For Europe, adaptation to climate change is still a black hole

Report from the European Court of Auditors on actions for climate crisis adaptation. States provide generic…

Rinnovabili • To reduce plastic pollution, we need to produce less and tax packaging
Pollution
To reduce plastic pollution, we need to produce less and tax packaging

The OECD publishes a report proposing to reduce plastic pollution by 96% by 2040 with draconian…

Rinnovabili • Rivers and glaciers never in such agony: the 2024 data on the global water crisis
Water Management
Rivers and glaciers never in such agony: the 2024 data on the…

The annual report of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) highlights the poor state of global water…

Rinnovabili • Vital parameters of the Earth, 25 out of 35 reach extreme records
Climate Change
Vital parameters of the Earth, 25 out of 35 reach extreme records

The “2024 State of the Climate” report highlights a deterioration, with 20 red-alert indicators in 2023.…

Rinnovabili • The LNG imported from the United States pollutes 30% more than coal
Climate Change
The LNG imported from the United States pollutes 30% more than coal

A study by Cornell University calculates the carbon footprint of liquefied natural gas by including all…

Rinnovabili • Microplastics in corals could explain the
Scientific Reports
Microplastics in corals could explain the “missing plastic problem”

Discovered by an international team, microplastics in corals remain trapped for a long time, disappearing from…

Rinnovabili • Low-carbon hydrogen: how to assess emission savings?
Pollution
Low-carbon hydrogen: how to assess emission savings?

The European Commission has launched a new public consultation on the draft delegated act that clarifies…

Rinnovabili • What would life be like in cities if global warming exceeded 3 degrees?
Climate Change
What would life be like in cities if global warming exceeded 3…

A report from the World Resources Institute (WRI) shows what would happen in cities if global…

Rinnovabili • Planetary boundaries: the 7th (out of 9) has almost been exceeded as well
Climate Change
We have almost exceeded another Planetary boundaries

The global indicator for ocean acidification, the aragonite saturation state, has worsened and is very close…

Rinnovabili • Amazon and Pantanal fires: record high, the most in 20 years
Climate Change
The year 2024 will be the worst for fires in the Amazon…

Half of the fires have devastated areas of old-growth forest. Emissions are on track to surpass…

Rinnovabili • Extreme events in Italy in the data released by Anbi. Cloudbursts account for more than half of the total. A particular concentration of events occurred in the first two weeks of September.
Climate Change
In 2024, nearly 1,900 extreme events in Italy

The data released by Anbi. More than half of the total are cloudbursts. A particular concentration…

Rinnovabili • Global Electricity Demand
Scientific Reports
Global Electricity Demand Surges by a Record 4%, Renewables Keep Coal in…

For both 2024 and 2025, the International Energy Agency forecasts an increase not seen since 2007.…