Tommaso Perrone

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Demonstrated leader and team manager focused on issues surrounding climate change, both the problems it creates and the solutions being sought.

I'm an environmental journalist, but I started as a blogger. I graduated in International Relations.

Favourite quote: "Shy people notice everything but don't get noticed" (Titta Di Girolamo in “The Consequences of Love”)

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Goldman Prize winner Maida Bilal and the women who saved a river in 503 days

“We were quiet and nice, then we transformed to save our wild river in the Balkans”. Our interview with Maida Bilal, winner of the 2021 Goldman Environmental Prize.

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A happy ending to the saga of the Keystone XL pipeline

A decade on, the Keystone XL pipeline has finally met its end, signalling that there’s no room for oil in the energy transition.

What 2020 taught us about the climate crisis

We must take advantage of opportunities for change to stop the climate crisis from becoming so serious that it drives us towards collective erasure.

2020: a year in news stories that have changed the face of humanity

This year has changed the face of humanity but could also mark the end of an unsustainable lifestyle. We look back at the top 10 news stories of 2020.

Philanthropist Paul Lister. I’m grateful for what has brought us here, but the future belongs to nature

From Scotland to Abruzzo, via Romania. Philanthropist Paul Lister’s mission is to save biodiversity, and the journey starts in Europe.

Now we all agree, on the climate

With Joe Biden as US president, the entire international community will be aligned on the climate crisis. We can’t let this chance slip away.

No clear winner yet as the United States awaits its new president

We wait, suspended in time, to find out who the next president of the United States will be. The results as they stand show a divided country.

Ilaria Capua. To the coronavirus we’re just another host animal, so let’s use our intelligence

These days her phone hasn’t stopped ringing but Ilaria Capua continues sharing her knowledge to spread information about the novel coronavirus. In this interview she highlights the importance of sustainability.

COP25, tireless Greta Thunberg urges us to unite behind the science

Unite Behind the Science: this was the title of the conference held at the COP25 on 10 December. Greta Thunberg’s presence filled the arena, but this time it was scientists’ turn to speak.

Roberto Saviano. When people are denied solidarity, all that’s left is to bear witness

What holds true whether we’re discussing migration or the environment? That “we’re suspicious of anything that shows empathy, goodness or righteousness,” says author and journalist Roberto Saviano. We interviewed him for the launch of his book There are no taxis in the sea.

Anthropocene, the human epoch in the words and photos of Edward Burtynsky

To mark the release of Anthropocene: The Human Epoch, we interviewed photographer and co-director Edward Burtynsky, who told us the story behind the documentary.