News from the Earth

The European Week for Waste Reduction represents the main and widest information and awareness campaign of European citizens about the impact of waste production on the environment. 

The current pandemic has taught us the link between pollution and health. Today we are all perfectly aware of the social, environmental, economic and health benefits that the presence of greenery has in our cities.

A green and fair recovery is able to create over 50 million jobs among the almost one hundred cities of the C40 network and their supply chain. About a third more than those that would be generated simply by maintaining the current polluting infrastructure. With accelerated reconstruction, on the other hand, it could reach 80 million. 

The new restrictions to contain the pandemic force us to spend much more time at home, which we may be using to take even more care of ourselves an...

Globally, the EU is responsible for more than 10% of the destruction of forests through the consumption of products such as meat, dairy products, soya for animal feed, palm oil, coffee and cocoa. The European Union has therefore decided to open a public consultation procedure on the theme of forest protection: "Deforestation and forest degradation - reducing the impact of products placed on the EU market".

Europe will ban plastic plates, cutlery and straws by 2021, but Italy has decided to do even more, saying goodbye also to glasses and balloons. In fact, the Italian Parliament will go beyond what is required by the European Directive in terms of single-use plastics, adding in the proposed text an amendment that extends the abolition of disposable plastic also to these other two types of products.

The European Commission has presented the Biodiversity Plan, a document that is part of the Green New Deal, the European Green Pact that aims to make Europe the first CO2-neutral continent by 2050. The new strategy proposes ambitious actions and commitments to halt the loss of biodiversity in Europe and the world and turn our food systems into global reference standards.

Between the 14th and 17th of July 2020, Italy’s first completely digital fashion week will take place. The event will see designers present the Spr...

Microplastics are contaminating the fruit and vegetables we eat, according to two separate scientific studies published this week.   According to t...

The prospect of simply returning to business as usual, that is, to the logic that accompanied us until yesterday, must be rejected at all costs. Th...

The foods we eat, the air we breathe, the water we drink and the climate that makes our planet habitable all come from nature. For instance, each y...

The United Kingdom has proposed to further delay the 26th UN World Climate Conference. Cop 26, initially scheduled to take place in Glasgow from 9 ...