The images coming from Brazil are really worrying, a mixture of indignation and anger assails us: the Amazon forest is burning at a dizzying pace, the green lung of the Earth is seriously threatened by fire. This was reported...
Since 1997, the Business Roundtable, America’s most
influential group of corporate leaders, has agreed on one principle: “The
paramount duty of management and of boards of directors is to the corporation’s
stockholders,” its mission statement declared.
The interests of other stakeholders, like employees,...
Iceland has marked its first-ever loss of a glacier to climate change as scientists warn that hundreds of other ice sheets on the subarctic island risk the same fate. As the world recently marked the warmest July ever on...
A green skyscraper to safeguard the environment and fight the negative effects of deforestation and the consequent disruption of the carbon cycle. This is the idea of a group of American architects who designed the Carbon Copy, an infrastructure...
Arctic is in full climatic emergency. It has been over a month now that the fires are devastating vast areas of Siberia and Alaska, beyond the Arctic Circle. Greenland is also involved to a lesser extent.
The worst situation is...
Ethiopia plants over 350 million trees in 12 hours to fight deforestation, climate change and recurring droughts. The African state beats the record held by India thanks to the initiative launched by the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. The...
On July 29, humanity will have used nature’s resource budget for the entire year, according to Global Footprint Network, an international sustainability organization that has pioneered the Ecological Footprint. The Ecological Footprint adds up all of people’s competing demands...
Circular
economy: plastic bottles in exchange for free bus or metro tickets. In Rome all
this is reality thanks to the initiative launched by Atac for the collection
and recycling of plastic bottles.
The "+ Ricicli + Viaggi" campaign will last 12 months...
Today the European Commission adopted a comprehensive Communication setting out a new framework of actions to protect and restore the world's forests, which host 80% of biodiversity on land, support the livelihoods of around a quarter of the world's...
Networks
representing more than 7,000 higher and further education institutions from six
continents have announced that they are declaring a ‘climate emergency’, and
agreed to undertake a three-point plan to address the crisis through their work
with students.
The
declaration came in a letter —...
