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The future of food safety

With an estimated 600 million cases of foodborne illnesses annually, unsafe food is a threat to human health and economies, disproportionally affecting vulnerable and marginalized people, especially women and children, populations affected by conflict and migrants. The First International Food Safety Conference will try to identify key actions and strategies to address current and future challenges to food safety globally while strengthening commitment at the highest political level to scale up food safety in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Ireland is the first country to divest from fossil fuels

Since 2012 the number of commitments on fossil fuel divestment has increased rapidly, reaching over 1000 institutions worth 7 trillion euro.

Arctic Report Card 2018: effects of persistent Arctic warming continue to mount

Continued warming of the Arctic atmosphere and ocean are driving broad change in the environmental system in predicted and, also, unexpected ways. New emerging threats are taking form and highlighting the level of uncertainty in the breadth of environmental change that is to come. A report tracking sea ice, snow cover, air temperature, ocean temperature, the Greenland ice sheet, vegetation and ecosystem changes during the 2018 calendar year.

COP24 wrap-up

At the U.N. climate summit in Poland, countries agreed upon the Katowice Climate Package, a set of rules for implementing the Paris Agreement. It is the outcome of a complex COP, due to technicalities and difficult international context. After two weeks and one extra day of tense negotiations, the rulebook to face and contain climate change got the green light.

Act fast but not alone – the role for urban policymakers in delivering a 1.5°C future

A new report translates the key scientific findings and policy observations from the IPCC’s Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C (SR1.5) for officials and

Climate migration: better knowledge, better policies for a world on the move

Government leaders of over 160 countries in Marrakech adopted the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM), the United Nations pact which aims

When health is taken into account, reducing emissions is an opportunity, not a cost

Meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement could save about a million lives a year worldwide by 2050 through reductions in air pollution alone, according to the World Health Organization. Health gains from climate action would be approximately double the cost of mitigation policies at the global level, and the benefit is even higher in countries such as China and India.

Tropical Cyclone prediction and projection

A Reflection by CMCC Foundation – CSP Division – Enrico Scoccimarro Tropical Cyclones and climate Tropical cyclones (TCs) in their most intense expression (hurricanes or typhoons)

Mediterranean forest area on the rise but increasingly in jeopardy

Climate change, wildfires and water scarcity drive forest degradation says a new FAO-Plan Bleu report – The State of Mediterranean Forests.

Not enough: latest studies put pressure on COP24 to speed-up climate action

Just days before the start of the COP24 climate summit in Katowice, a mounting pile of major reports points to the same message: despite the efforts in place, action to tackle climate change is still far away from the objectives set in the Paris agreement.

Current concentrations of CO2 last experienced 3-5 million years ago

Levels of the atmospheric greenhouse gases (GHGs) carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O) have all reached new highs in 2017, according to

Conserving nature in the face of urban growth

Better planning for sustainable urban growth and the use of natural solutions, careful management of protected areas near cities, and integration of nature into cities

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