Terrorism has drawn global attention and most countries have joined the effort to contrast it. But the international community is yet to wage a war against air pollution despite the enormity of the hazard it poses for global health. In India, for example, terrorism has taken 65,900 human lives between 1994 and 2017, which is almost half of deaths caused by air pollution in
Papa Francesco ha ricevuto Donald Trump in Vaticano. Dopo un colloquio di 30 minuti gli ha regalato l’enciclica sull’ambiente, sulla cura della casa comune.
“This is the issue of our times. Climate change is the biggest issue”. Filmmaker Kaia Rose stresses the importance of discussing this global matter on a Connect4Climate Facebook live Q&A held on the 11th of May, with Eric Mann. They’re both behind the production of Climate Countdown: Price on Carbon, the Film4Climate Global Video Competition short-film winner of the Put
Due mani sostengono uno dei palazzi di Venezia che rischiano di sprofondare a causa del clima che cambia. È l’opera dell’artista Lorenzo Quinn.
In Brasile la situazione per i guaraní, il popolo indigeno più numeroso del Paese, è drammatica, privati delle loro terre ancestrali e assassinati impunemente dai proprietari terrieri.
Days after New Zealand granted the Whangui River the status of legal personhood, the culmination of a 140 year legal struggle by the Maori people, a court in India has declared the rivers Ganga and its main tributary Yamuna a legal “person” in a fresh effort to save it from pollution. The river Ganga Originating in
A landslide has hit Mocoa, a Colombian city home to 40,000 people, flooding it with mud and debris. According to local sources, the accumulated rainfall in a few hours was almost one third of the amount normally accumulated over a month. Rescuers, including the Red Cross and more than 1,000 military men, are tirelessly working to
Come le famiglie di una delle aree più aride del Myanmar coltivano gli ortaggi utilizzando sistemi che usano l’acqua in modo efficiente, risparmiandola. Tra questi c’è anche un progetto di Terres des Hommes Italia.
The Bakken or Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), an underground oil pipeline project in the United States, is owned by a network of oil and pipeline companies, joint ventures and holding companies. After Trump revived it in January without the consent of the Sioux indigenous tribe affected by it and flouting environmental laws, many investors both from the US
by Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of Paris and Chair of C40 Muriel Bowser, Mayor of Washington D.C. Manuela Carmena, Mayor of Madrid Ada Colau, Mayor of Barcelona Helen Fernández, Mayor of Caracas Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, Mayor of Warsaw Zandile Gumede, Mayor of Durban Fumiko Hayashi, Mayor of Yokohama Patricia de Lille, Mayor of Cape Town Clover Moore,
