[posted by Arnim Scheidel, Leah Temper, Federico Demaria, Joan Martínez-Alier on Sustainability Science, May 2018]   Introduction Transitions towards more sustainable futures could benefit from supporting those civil society actors that relentlessly oppose and transform local unsustainabilities across the globe. Instead, persecution, criminalization and violence against such grassroots activists, including their brutal...

SCEMPIO CAPITALE: I veleni del Parco Archeologico di Centocelle

Stamattina al coworking l’Alveare abbiamo presentato i risultati delle analisi indipendenti che abbiamo condotto sui terreni del Parco Archeologico di Centocelle, insieme al comitato PAC Libero, attraverso il progetto CleanUp 100Celle, sostenuto da Patagonia Environmental Grants Fund of Tides Foundation. Dalle analisi si evincono concentrazioni significative che superano i limiti di legge (D. Lgs. 152/2006) per il verde pubblico,...

[posted by Dana Drugmand on Climate Liability News, August 14, 2018] A lawsuit dubbed the People’s Climate Case, which challenges the European Union’s 2030 emissions reduction target and other climate policies, was given the green light by a court on Monday and is moving forward. The European General Court accepted the case brought by 10 families from Portugal, Germany, France, Italy, Romania, Kenya and Fiji and a youth association in...

[posted by Tina Bellon on Reuters, August 11, 2018] A California jury on Friday found Monsanto liable in a lawsuit filed by a man who alleged the company’s glyphosate-based weed-killers, including Roundup, caused his cancer and ordered the company to pay $289 million in damages. The case of school groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson was the first lawsuit to go to trial alleging glyphosate causes cancer. Monsanto, a unit of Bayer AG...

TAP: non è una questione di opinioni, ma di “ingiustizia climatica”

[di Marcello Greco su Salento Metropoli, 18 agosto 2018] Intervista al Prof. Michele Carducci, Ordinario di Diritto costituzionale comparato nell’Università del Salento e Human Rights Defender del Movimento No Tap nonché di Comitati, Associazioni e cittadini che si oppongono al gasdotto. La questione del gasdotto TAP non può ridursi ad una mera questioni di costi economici e penali. In questa vicenda sono coinvolti interessi e diritti...