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• Was it the oil barons’ Cop28? The doubts and ambiguities of the Dubai summit
• 10 December – The day of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

  Universal Declaration of Human Rights – Every year on 10 December, the world commemorates the birth of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), adopted in 1948. This landmark document, born from the ashes of the Second World War, remains a beacon for global human rights, despite the challenges and changes that have marked the decades since.

• Siena is the first Italian city to obtain GSTC certification
• The birth of landscape painting - How it taught us to love nature
• ‘Climate refugees’: who are they? – A status not yet recognised
• Cop28 – Women and the ecological transition: their time has come

  Cop28 – The women speakers pledged to follow the outcomes of Cop28 closely, particularly on the thorny issue of funding for a just energy transition, from the phasing out of fossil fuels to the introduction and development of clean energy.

• Cop 28 – Appeal by Ban Ki-moon and Graça Machel to world leaders: ‘Let us not waste this opportunity to get back on track’

  Cop 28 – “After a year marked by record global temperatures and unprecedented climate impacts, leaders will meet in Dubai for the 28th conference of the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change – Cop28.

• The super-rich pollute more than everyone else. There is only one solution: tax them. So says Oxfam.

  In 2019, the richest 1% of the world’s population produced as much carbon pollution as the five billion people who make up the poorest two thirds of humanity.

• Stellantis goes all-electric: new acquisitions and projects for BEVs (battery electric vehicles)
• Eco-activists or eco-vandals?

  Eco-activists - For some time now, young, sometimes very young, environmentalists have begun to express their dissent, mostly in Europe, over the lack of concrete political action against climate change by attacking works of art and monuments, without, they claim, causing any damage.

• The on-grid solar system: the economical choice of the moment for installing photovoltaic panels
• Sustainable museums - Another challenge for the future

  Once the dusty, old-fashioned place par excellence, the museum is taking on an increasingly active part in society, to the point of playing a key role in promoting a culture of sustainability too.