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December 03, 2019 The decade 2010-2020 is destined to be the hottest in history. This is revealed by an annual report by the United Nations, which outlines the ways in which climate change proceeds faster than human capacity to adapt to it. In what is the second day of the Cop 25, in Madrid, the World Meteorological Organization announced that global temperatures this year were 1.1 degrees above the pre-industrial average, projecting 2019 towards podium of the hottest three years ever recorded. Co2 emissions linked to fossil fuels, the construction of infrastructures, the increase in crops and the transport of goods contribute to making 2019 the record year for the concentration of carbon dioxide (or carbon dioxide).

Greta Thunberg arrived in Lisbon, then Madrid to attend the conference
The young activist Greta Thunberg arrived in the port of Lisbon, returning from her zero-emission trip - on a sailboat - to the United States. Next stop, Madrid to attend the COP25. The Swedish activist had left the US on a catamaran on November 13th immediately after Chile had given up hosting the world climate conference for reasons of public order. The South American country was in the most acute phase of the social crisis, with street demonstrations lasting weeks, in which at least 22 people died and hundreds were injured. Greta had been to the UN Assembly, still traveling by sea, and found herself taken aback by moving the COP25 to Madrid. The conference will close on November 13 in the Spanish capital.

Legambiente: decarbonize by 2040 already
Anticipating the complete decarbonisation of the Italian economy by 2040 "is not an impossible challenge", what is needed is a "drastic change of pace compared to the current Integrated Energy and Climate National Plan (PNIEC) proposed by the government. An unambitious plan in the objectives - which incredibly the new executive does not want to review - with a reduction in emissions by 2030 of only 37%, below the European target set at 40%, and with a projection of 2050 of just 64% ". The Legambiente supports it through the study carried out by Elemens for the same environmental association and presented today on the opening day of the XII QUALENERGY Forum organized in Rome by Legambiente, by the editorial Nuova Ecologia, by the Kyoto Club, in partnership with Cobat. An appointment that is part of the week of the beginning of the Cop25 in Madrid. The study says that Italy would have everything to gain, in terms of reduced imports and consumption of oil and gas, anticipating by 2030 a reduction in climate-changing emissions of 60% and reaching 2040 with zero emissions.