Those who fight for the climate have no choices: it’s a matter of survival
It’s not possible to prevent people from fighting for the climate. Naomi Klein talked at the Climate Action Zone, Paris. Here’s what she said.
A spoken word artist from the Marshall Islands brings climate change alive in a poem to her daughter
Dear Matafele Peinem is a poem by spoken word artist Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner from the Marshall Islands. Addressed to her daughter, it warns against climate change, detailing an apocalyptic scenario that, Jetnil-Kijiner promises, she will protect Matafele Peinem from. Fired with rage and sweetened by affection, Jetnil-Kijiner performed the piece at St. Pancras railway station in
All you need to know about the beginning of climate talks at COP21
COP21 has begun and over 100 leaders from all over the world have met at Le Bourget, Paris, to bring their enthusiasm and their pledges to reduce CO2 emissions, in preparation for a landmark, binding deal. Once again, the speech that hit the nail on the head the most has been delivered by Barack Obama. He
Carlo Carraro. Paris is just the first step in the fight against global warming
He’s one of the most important Italian economists in the world, as well as director of the International Centre for Climate Governance (ICCG). That’s why Carlo Carraro was chosen by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), depending upon the United Nations, to draw up the renowned reports on global warming that politicians should follow to adopt concrete
Europe’s southernmost glacier is likely to disappear
The only glacier of the Apennine Mountains, the Calderone, will disappear if current melting rates are not curbed. Over the past 50 years, the European southernmost glacier lost 33 per cent of its extension, shrinking from a surface of 0.07 square kilometres in the early 1990s to only 0.04 square kilometres. The problem has been highlighted
12 pills to digest our binge on CO2 whilst we wait to sit at table of COP 21
1 COP is not a new TV show about the police force but stands for “conference of the parties”. 196 countries (almost all of them) signed up to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC. It’s the 21st time they come together to take part in a conference, hence the name COP21.
Are you climate change skeptics? Go to the Mont Blanc
Bloomberg reporter Helen Fouquet went back to the Mont Blanc 27 years after her last visit. In 1988, it took only 3 steps to reach the glacier, today it takes 370.
The agony of polar bears shown in a picture
A picture taken in Svalbard clearly shows the phenomenon of arctic ice melting that is threatening polar bears survival.
Yes, Coca-Cola is among those who fight climate change
None of them is directly involved in coal, oil, or natural gas, but the multinationals embracing the call of the US President Barack Obama to actively commit against climate change are the world’s most influential, with a total turnover of 1,300 billion dollars in 2014 alone. 13 companies, including Apple, Google, General Motors, and Bank
The bumblebees’ last flight: climate change is decimating them
Secondo una ricerca il riscaldamento globale sta rendendo inadatte alla vita dei bombi le regioni più meridionali del loro abituale areale.