Tommaso Perrone
Editor in Chief
On the 12th of July, Malala Yousafzai, Nobel Peace Prize, turned 18. The girl shot on 9 October 2012 fights for the right to education for everyone since she was a little girl, and she lived more than a normal person does in a lifetime. Not a typical birthday, not the typical guests. Yousafzai
With the aim of achieving a fully sustainable development that respects the environment, promotes social inclusion and the economic growth, the Third International Conference on Financing for Development has started in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in order to invest in people and our planet’s future. The representatives participating to the summit aim to define how to
Denmark has produced so much electricity from renewable sources to be able to sell it to neighbouring countries, helping the entire European continent in the objective of reducing, to zero, CO2 emissions in the atmosphere. The extraordinary fact took place in the – unusually windy – day of Thursday 9 July, when Denmark succeeded in
Srebrenica is a town in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina. During the civil war in the former Yugoslavia, started in late 1992, this enclave lived one of Europe’s worst massacres after the Second World War. In July 1995, some 8,000 men and boys were killed by Serbian military forces led by General Ratko Mladić, whilst women, children and elderly
People who fled the Syrian civil war, which started over 4 years ago, exceeded 4 million. Of them, 1.8 million went to Turkey, which is now the country that hosts the highest number of refugees in the world. These data have been released by latest report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner
What is the main cause of global warming? 14.5 per cent of total CO2 emissions are generated by farm animals and dairies. Though it could seem a reasonable figure, it’s more than the CO2 emitted by all cars, trucks, ships and airplanes together, on the whole planet. These data are shown in the video Do you have
After more than 5 years from the environmental disaster of the Deepwater Horizon oil platform, on 20 April 2010, Gulf of Mexico, the British Petroleum (BP) agreed to pay a penalty of 18.7 billion dollars in order to end once for all the legal action the United States and other federal states took after the worst
The life of Kazuyoshi Nomachi as a photographer started in 1971 at the age of 25, when he embarked on his first journey across the African desert of Sahara, documenting the arduous life conditions of people living in hostile areas since ages. From that day, Nomachi didn’t stop. He’s been focusing for 40 years on populations
He has already invested 1 billion dollars in tens of projects and innovative realities for the development of renewables all over the world. Maybe not all investments had the success and outcomes desired, but they have certainly been money well spent, since they set a guideline within the energy industry. With this in mind, the world’s richest man,
Brazil and the United States have reached an historic agreement to put climate change at the top of their governments’ agenda. The meeting between the US President Barack Obama and the Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff resulted in the pledge to increase the renewable electricity production by 20% of the total requirements by 2030.
