Environment

Climate Change

Rinnovabili • Wildfire insurance: premiums cut by 39% for prevention efforts
Climate Change
A new wildfire insurance model rewards resilience in climate-stricken California

On the California insurance market—battered by wildfires that have slashed coverage and driven up costs—a new wildfire insurance model has just emerged. The twist? Premiums and deductibles…

Rinnovabili • Climate action impact on GDP: +3% by 2050 with stronger policies
Climate Change
SStronger climate policies could boost global…

Climate action impact on GDP: ambitious policies today mean +3% by 2050…

Rinnovabili • Global greenhouse gas emissions: 36 companies behind 50%
Climate Change
36 companies behind half of global…

The Carbon Majors report by InfluenceMap outlines the corporate giants most responsible…


Rinnovabili • Planetary Boundaries
Climate Change
Planetary Boundaries: How to Make the Future Fair as Well as Safe

Integrating equity into the historical concept of Planetary Boundaries—this is the goal of a groundbreaking study…

Rinnovabili • Global Warming
Climate Change
Global Warming: Summer 2024 is the Hottest on Record

With August, we now have 13 months exceeding 1.5°C over the last 14 months. From January…

Rinnovabili • Cost of the climate change
Climate Change
Cost of the climate change in Africa already nears 9% of GDP

Extreme weather events, which are becoming more frequent and intense, along with the need to adapt…

Rinnovabili • CO2 Capture and Storage
Climate Change
Realistic Global Capacity for CO2 Capture and Storage: New Study Reveals Limits

A study published in Nature Communications provides an estimate of the global maximum capacity for CO2…

Rinnovabili • Forest ecosystems and climate change
Climate Change
Forest ecosystems and climate change

Is it possible to protect forest ecosystems from the effects of climate change? A study has…

Rinnovabili • Why is the mortality rate related to temperature in Europe expected to worsen?
Climate Change
Why is the mortality rate related to temperature in Europe expected to…

A new study from the JRC examines the effects of climate change on temperature-related morbidity and…

Rinnovabili • Record temperature for the Mediterranean
Climate Change
Record temperature for the Mediterranean with an average daily climb of 30…

On 15 August a record average temperature for the Mediterranean Sea of 28.9°C was recorded, higher…

Rinnovabili • Amazon forest
Environment
The greatest danger to the Amazon forest is not deforestation

A PNAS study provides the first accurate estimate of the specific impact of the various anthropological…

Rinnovabili • health of oceans
Climate Change
Financing a research programme to safeguard the health of oceans and corals

Protecting corals and the health of the oceans is the goal of the Big Ideas for…

Rinnovabili • global warming
Climate Change
July pushes 2024 to new global warming record

Data from the European satellite system Copernicus set the global warming for January-July 2024 at +1,58…

Rinnovabili • Extreme heat deaths
Environment
Extreme heat deaths: 175 000 deaths per year in Europe

Europe is warming up twice as fast as the rest of the world. It alone accounts…

Rinnovabili • Earth Overshoot Day
Environment
Today is Earth Overshoot Day 2024: we consume 1.75 Planets per year

Today is Earth Overshoot Day 2024. Global ecological debt has been stable for a decade. But…