È partito ufficialmente il 1 novembre il progetto interreg MED Tune Up - Promoting multilevel governance for tuning up biodiversity protection in marine areas cofinanziato dal programma Interreg MED 2014 – 2020. Il progetto, della durata di due anni e mezzo (da novembre 2019 a giugno 2022)
"It is difficult to pinpoint the moment when I became an environmentalist", says Roberto Cavallo to the audience gathered in the council hall of the municipality of Assemini. The grandson of a farmer, the son of an eminent naturalist scholar, he grew up in a bustle of European scientists, playing with the earth and climbing up the trees, like a brand new rampant baron.
The European project MedArtSal, Sustainable management model for Mediterranean Artisanal Salinas officially starts in November. The project is funded by the European Programme ENI CBC MED 2014-2020, with a total budget of € 3.2 million and an EU contribution of € 2.9 million (90%) and it will last 36 months.
"The change was gradual. Step by step we were introducing the good practices when the MEDSEA Foundation contacted us. We grabbed the chance. The result was amazing, both for the enthusiastic participation of our customers as for the volume of plastic we’ve been able to eliminate. Before we filled two large bins every day.
"You perceive yourself as infinitely small, the scenario around is majestic and fragile. You can't but feel responsible, you start thinking insistently on how to protect it". Around Gianluca Casagrande, professor of geography at the European University of Rome, it lays out the exhibition "82 ° 07'Nord- on a sailing boat on the edge of the Pole, following of the airship Italy"
The data speak to us: we're getting more and more exposed. The cost of damage caused by natural disasters - floods, storms, hurricanes, extreme heat peaks, droughts, fires and landslides - has increased by 20 times in the last 50 years.
The wind pushes away the last fringe of gray clouds on the Mandriola seafront to make room for the wide October light. It is the mistral, tutelary numen of the III Surfing Festival in S. Vero Milis. The carbonari communication of surfers, usually conveyed by mobile phones, takes place between one meeting and another thanks to the convergence guaranteed by the feast.
The Mediterranean coast is exposed to severe threats from climate change: it’s one of the biggest crises humanity has ever faced. Sea level rise, warming waters and changing storm patterns are already having serious impacts on the lives of more than a third of the region’s population – that’s some 180 million people.
"We are imagining the future", explains Inza Fofana, holding a bag full of rubbish. He left three years ago the Ivory Coast at war and arrived in Italy on a boat, after he crawled up half of the African continent. A guest for months in the Libyan hell. Inza, now eighteen, is one of the many students from the Buccari and Marconi institutes of Cagliari who took part in the "#PlasticFreeGC" initiative, promoted by the general command of the Coast Guard Corps on request of the Ministry of the Environment.
