Padua Launches Climate Action Week 2026
From 11 to 19 April 2026, the city of Padua (Italy) will host the first Padova Climate Action Week (PCAW), a week-long programme of climate-focused events spread across the entire urban area. Rather...
More and more regions around the world are facing water bankruptcy
There were algae, carp, sturgeon, and other fish, fishing boats and canning factories. Along the shores of the Aral Sea, on the border between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, a vibrant community once liv...
The Paris Climate Agreement marks its first ten years
Ten years ago, the Paris Agreement united the world in the fight against climate change at the 21st United Nations Climate Change Conference. With this historic agreement, 195 countries pledged to t...
Soil: over 70% of all countries underestimate its importance in mitigation strategies
Much is often said – and even more so these days, with COP30 underway in Belém, Brazil – about reducing emissions, mitigating and absorbing CO₂. Much less often, however, is it ...
COP30’s local legacy: Cities will make or break the climate fight
As ICLEI’s Regional Director for Europe, I am often asked why we invest so much effort in global climate negotiations. Why does an organisation of cities and regions engage so deeply in p...
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s plans to combat climate change
As of November 4, 2025, New York City voters elected Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old Democratic Socialist, as the city’s next mayor. Mamdani’s victory – along with Democratic ga...
At War with the Future: Trump Speaks at the UN General Assembly
A legend in his own mind, Donald Trump took to the podium at the UN General Assembly in New York to lambaste the United Nations as an organization, praise himself for all his economic and political ...
How does climate change affect coral reefs?
This article is also avilable in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Coral reefs, often described as the “rainforests of the sea,” are critical to marine bi...
States have an obligation to combat climate change: landmark UN ruling
Questo articolo è disponibile anche in inglese / This article is also available in English Ralph Regenvanu was present in the courtroom of the International Court of Justice in The Hague on ...
Drought, Climate Change, and Scientific Diplomacy: A Collective Response from Latin America
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Drought is no longer just a natural or cyclical phenomenon: it is one of the most destructive impa...
China’s CO₂ emissions begin to fall: have they finally reached the peak?
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano A clear and unmistakable downturn. The once sharply rising line on the graph comes to a sudden hal...
Climate-Biodiversity-Water Nexus: the protection of ecosystem services in South America
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano In recent years, major and historical-record wildfires have devastated regions worldwide, includin...
Indigenous lands are key to conserving biodiversity and mitigating climate change
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation have become priorities on the global agend...
Merchant of Doubt, the most actual book today celebrates 15 years
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The book Merchants of Doubt, written by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, remains highly relevant eve...
2025, Scientists sounds alarm over melting glaciers: interview with glaciologist Isabelle Gärtner-Roer
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Glaciers are powerful communicators, revealing much about what is happening on our planet. They wa...
Climate and Trump: uncertainty looms over global food prices
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano After a 2.1% decline in global agricultural commodity prices in 2024, the outlook for the year ahe...
Challenges and opportunities for the future of European fisheries
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The climate crisis, biodiversity loss, and pollution are just some of the factors affecting the fi...
Italian Climate Fund: how Italy is really contributing
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano From Baku - Negotiations on the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) − the post-2025 f...
Early Warning Systems: Tackling New Glacial Dangers through Prevention
In the unpredictable mountains, there is no such thing as zero risk. We have always known this. But now, because of global warming, the dangers have grown more severe. This can be understood by look...
Drought in Sicily: what’s happening?
Livestocks drink mud, lakes dry up, grain and forage harvests are down to zero. These are the shocking images coming recently from Sicily, in the midst of a drought emergency. These hardships a...