VICTORY FOR THE ELDERLY CLIMATE LADIES: FOR THE EUROPEAN COURT IN STRASBOURG, CLIMATE INACTION VIOLATES HUMAN RIGHTS
On 6 March, almost three years after it was launched, the first instance of the first lawsuit in Italy against the state for inaction on the climate crisis came to an end. The Civil Court of Rome declared the 'Giudizio Universale' (Universal Judgment), brought by 24 associations, 179 individuals and the legal team of the 'Legality for the Climate' network, inadmissible for '...
SOLO IL GREEN DEAL E RETRIBUZIONI PIU GIUSTE SALVERANNO L'AGRICOLTURA EUROPEA
L’ultima riunione del Consiglio agricoltura che si è tenuta a Bruxelles il 26 febbraio scorso è stata l’occasione di una nuova, massiccia e per niente tranquilla mobilitazione di agricoltori, che hanno invaso con i loro trattori le grandi “avenues” che portano alla Commissione e al Consiglio (il Parlamento europeo era invece chiuso, riunito in sessione plenari...
SMOG E SALUTE: ARRIVA LA NUOVA DIRETTIVA SULLA QUALITÃ DELL'ARIA
Che ci sia un problema grave di inquinamento in pianura padana e che in molte città, tra le quali la mia, Brescia, l’aria sia particolarmente insalubre è cosa nota da anni. Nel lontano 2006, l’allora assessore Ettore Brunelli scriveva ai suoi colleghi assessori delle altre città lombarde per sottolineare la necessità di coordinarsi rispetto alla Regione, il ...
GREEN DEAL AGAINST AGRICULTURE? A FAKE NEWS:here is why
From the windows of my house, I can see Place Luxembourg in Brussels and last Wednesday, 31 January, dozens of tractors parked around and in the small park opposite. My Belgian neighbours (I wasn't there), all ardent pro-Europeans and environmentalists, came down in the evening with beer, fruit and sausages to discuss them in a lively but rather quiet atmosphere, and some of the farmers even f...
THE FARMERS' PROTESTS? THE GREEN DEAL HAS LITTLE TO DO WITH IT
Let's face it: there are many problems to be addressed in European agriculture, but the Green Deal has little to do with it. The European Green Deal is unfairly becoming a convenient scapegoat for all discontents and is a set of laws, rules, and funding that should help us avoid the climate catastrophe that we see more clearly every day: just to say, droughts and floods alone cost the agricul...
LES RAS-LE-BOL DES AGRICULTEURS? LE GREEN DEAL N'Y EST POUR PAS GRANDE CHOSE.
Soyons honnêtes : il y a de nombreux problèmes à résoudre dans l'agriculture européenne, mais le Green Deal n'a pas grand-chose à voir avec cela. Le Green Deal européen devient injustement un bouc émissaire commode pour tous les mécontentements. Il s'agit d'un ensemble de lois, de règles et de financements qui ...
WE NEED A STRONGER INDUSTRIAL GREEN LOBBY TO SAVE THE GREEN DEAL
Published in Italian on L”ESPRESSO” and in this longer version on “ForumDiseguaglianze e diversità” Rossella Muroni, (Former President of Legambiente and Member of the Italian parliament) On the environmental innovation front, the relationship with Europe is the elephant in the room. The vulgate that arrives in the newspapers is that stepmotherly Europe imposes...
LA POLITICA INDUSTRIALE EUROPEA INCIAMPA NEL GREENWASHING
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Il 18 novembre, solo qualche giorno dopo la fine della COP28, durante la quale l’Unione europea ha giocato un ruolo importante nella redazione del compromesso (“transitioning away from fossil fuels”) dell’accordo finale, sono usciti due rapporti sullo stato della transizione verde dell’UE, uno dell’Agenzia europea dell’ambiente e l’altro della Commis...
EU: DESPITE COP28, INDUSTRIAL POLICY STUMBLES WITH GREENWASHING
On 18 December, only a few days after the end of COP28, during which the EU played an important role in the drafting of the final compromise ('transitioning away from fossil fuels'), two reports on the state of the EU's green transition came out, one from the European Environment Agency and the other from the European Commission, indicating that without more ambitious and better implem...
